Well, it's September. Fall is in the air, you can tell, because I've got my fall boy

turtle neck on. I can hear the happy scurrying of little feet as girls and women of all

ages run past my window on their way to Starbucks for the first pumpkin spice latte of the year.

All is basically right with the world for those of us that love this season because this fall

2024 brings an extra special event and I am not talking about the

presidential election I am talking about the Odysseus movie.

It's almost here, you guys, it's almost here, you guys, it's coming this month, the Odysseus movie The Return with Ray Fines is going to

premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. We won't get our hands on it until

December, which is good because we've got a little

more time here on Young Heretics to talk through the Homeric stories and that's if

you'll remember why I embarked upon this mission in the first place, although if I'm being perfectly

honest I will take essentially any excuse to talk about Homer and I have basically

embarked now on a whole separate thread of wanderings through the backstory of the

Homeric poems, the history of their creation, their interpretation, and it has been

a blast. This is O.G. Young Heretics. This is the first topic we ever did and we are revisiting it now with good reason, good occasion too.

But time moves ever onward and we have reached the climax, the end of the Iliad.

There is so much good stuff to read with you today and so much moving stuff.

The end of the Iliad is an end befitting a war epic. It's

befitting the epic that invented the concept of war epic at least for us and one thing that makes it special that sets it apart from your typical war epic.

If you think about the stereotype you might have in your mind about the

war epic you think yeah maybe there's gonna be some

heart-wrenching moments with the soldier and his buddy and maybe there'll be some

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