Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 09 & 10 (Books 20-24)

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

It's the conclusion of our show-within-a-show dedicated to Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We read it a few books at a time and had a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. This episode covers Books 20-24.

Episode 09: Everybody's "favorite" guy Achillies is finally back on the battlefield! The gods want this to go smoothly, so they step into the fray themselves. But Achilles isn't sparing ANYONE. Even a nearby river is getting messed up! Then we are finally given the main event: Achilles v. Hector. And wouldn't you know, another hero bites the dust.

Episode 10: The grand finale of Stop! Homer Time and of the Iliad itself. First, some big boys play some small games, and then two sworn enemies briefly share a moment of grief and admiration, even as their eventual doom hangs over them both.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.6	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:11.3	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.2	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:45.3	Music These are books you should have read by now. Hey, everybody, welcome to Stop.
0:47.1	Homer time.
0:59.4	A podcast within a podcast, the Overdue podcast, brought to you by me, me Andrew a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read I like you okay you've promoted yourself to like having a higher billing than me
1:05.6	which I guess is like you do the intro all the time so it's your prerogative I suppose to
1:09.5	I always say my name is Craig and you say my name is Andrew. I was just going in order.
1:13.9	Yeah, no, you just made it sound like it's brought to you by Craig. And it's like, oh, Craig is now the the plains outside of Troy I got lost in the river
1:32.5	scamander a.khaa zanthus aka zanthus he does he does evolve into schemelian of
1:40.2	scarcer so it's worth it to get a Scamander, I think.
1:46.7	And to find my way back.
1:48.1	So I did not mean to slight you in the crediting, but here's where we are doing battle on the fields back here in Homer's Iliad translated by Emily Wilson andrew
2:02.1	It feels dangerous to have the action keep rising
2:05.1	This close to the end
2:06.1	It really does
2:07.4	Rising and rising and rising
2:09.0	It's like when's it gonna fall you know
2:10.8	I've baked a few loaves of bread
2:13.3	And I would be scared if it was still rising
2:16.4	This late into the process.
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