Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey Book VII

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Liv reads Book VII of Homer's Odyssey, translated into prose by Samuel Butler. Odysseus meets with Alcinous and Arete, king and queen of the Phaeacians.

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0:18.5	Hello this is let's talk about myths baby and I am live your host and person who is absolutely obsessed with the Odyssey and with Odysseus quite specifically. But before we get to my main man I just
0:28.0	want to let you all know or remind you I should say that next week on Tuesday we will have a very special episode of this
0:35.6	podcast because I sat down with Bettany Hughes the author the Queen of Classics
0:41.6	herself we talked about Aphrodite and Venus and her history
0:46.7	and ancestors of her in terms of goddesses in the Mediterranean and everything in between. It was utterly fascinating and I am so excited
0:58.0	for you all to listen to it. I'm thrilled that I got to talk to her and I just, oh, it was a real, a real exciting moment so please
1:07.2	tune in for Tuesday's episode.
1:10.0	But for now, we're just back with Odysseus.
1:13.2	Udisius.
1:16.2	This is Homer's Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler, Book 7.
1:24.8	Thus then did Odysseus wait and pray, but the girl drove on to the town.
1:30.9	When she reached her father's house, she drew up at the gateway and her brothers, comely as the gods, gathered round
1:37.6	her, took the mules out of the wagon and carried the clothes into the house, while she went to her own room where an old servant
1:45.2	Yurimadusa of Ipeira lit the fire for her. This old woman had been brought by sea from
1:51.2	a pira and had been chosen as a prize for Alsynuous because he was
1:55.6	king over the Fiation's and the people obeyed him as though he were a god.
2:01.2	She had become nurse to Nausicaa and had now lit the fire for her and brought her supper for her into her own room.
2:09.1	Presently Odysseus got up to go towards the town and Benerva shed a thick mist all round him to hide
2:16.1	him in case any of the proud fiations who met him should be rude to him or ask him who he was. Then as he was just entering the town she came towards him in the
2:26.8	likeness of a little girl carrying a pitcher. She stood right in front of him and Odysseus said,
2:33.4	My dear, will you be so kind as to show me the house of King Alcinuous?
2:38.6	I am an unfortunate foreigner in distress and do not know one in your town and country.
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