Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey Book XVIII

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

Liv Albert

Comedy, History, Arts

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Liv reads Book XVIII of Homer's Odyssey, translated into prose by Samuel Butler. Odysseus, still in disguise, makes trouble with the suitors of Penelope.

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0:00.7	慢慢来
0:05.0	贺信
0:08.2	拿出
0:10.6	昨天
0:10.9	这里
0:11.9	桌上
0:13.5	陪到
0:16.1	赛
0:17.2	看
0:27.9	我
0:27.7	Hello, this is Let's Talk About Myths Baby
0:35.7	and I am your host, Liv, here reading more of the Odyssey, because it is my favorite thing to do
0:43.7	well, we're back with Odysseus once more getting deeper and deeper into the issues and potential outcomes with the suitors
0:53.7	it's gonna be good. Of course, where we last left everyone Odysseus was finally in the palace now
1:01.7	he hadn't quite met Penelope yet and he is in disguise while he and Telemachus plan and plot
1:31.7	this is Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler book eighteen
1:43.7	now there came a certain common tramp who used to go begging all over the city of Ithaca and was notorious as an
1:53.7	incorrigible glutton and drunkard this man had no strength nor stay in him but he was a great hulking fellow to look at his real name
2:03.7	the one his mother gave him was Arnais but the young men of the place called him Iris because he used to run errands for anyone who would send him
2:13.7	as soon as he came he began to insult Odysseus and to try and drive him out of his own house. Be off old man he cried from the doorway or you shall be dragged out neck and heels
2:26.7	do not see that they are all giving me the wink and wanting me to turn you out by force only I do not like to do so
2:34.7	get up then and go off yourself or we shall come to blows
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