Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 1 & 2 (Books 1-4)

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

For our latest show-within-a-show, we'll revisit Ancient Greece through Emily Wilson's new translation of Homer's The Iliad. We'll be reading it a few books at a time and having a more in-depth chat about it than we do about most books. These two episodes cover Books 1-4.

Episode 1: The Iliad drops us right into the middle of the action, where "the middle" is 9 years into a 10 year conflict and "the action" is a couple of easily-affronted guys who instantly get mad at each other. Then we're treated to some maneuvering among the gods, some Odyssean trickery, the Catalog of Ships, and the less-impressive Catalog of Boys. (Books 1-2)

Episode 2: Just as the Trojans and Greeks seem on the brink of a giant clash, pretty boy Paris is shamed out of the crowd and cajoled into dueling Paris' former husband Menelaus. Surprise, surprise - the gods intervene! And after a brief interval, the gods spur the two sides into bloody action. (More like Aga-neg'em-on, amirite.) (Books 3-4)

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:04.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:11.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:15.6	Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh,
0:24.0	uh, uh, Hey everybody welcome to stop Homer time a
0:46.4	podcast from the boys at overdue just a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my name is is Craig. My name is Andrew. And Andrew, we're back here.
0:56.7	Many folks have probably listened to episode zero, but if they didn't,
1:01.0	what are we talking about?
1:03.0	Talking about the Iliad, as translated.
1:05.0	The Iliad, you know from school and literature,
1:09.0	as translated by Emily Wilson, friend of his show, who also translated the Odyssey several years ago.
1:15.7	We read that, we had a good time, come back to read this.
1:19.2	And hopefully have another good time, a slightly different good time.
1:21.8	Yes, and what we've done if you have the Iliad has 3.9 out of five stars on Goodreads like
1:27.2	there's no there's no pleasing anybody you know I I would be interested know what people's complaints are like I like to read the three
1:35.3	star good actually not right now and so we're not going to sing this song I would like to
1:38.4	read the three star good reviews for the Iliad for people who are like, yeah, this is okay, but like
1:45.3	What did they think it was gonna be? I didn't like the characterization. There's not enough
1:49.2	explosions. There's no no the Trojan horse doesn't even show up. That's probably a big one. Yeah, that's probably a big one and the like is this the story about war that I thought it was going to be is probably a probably hits for some people.
2:03.2	We talk in our episode zero about, you know, Homer again, about where this comes from.
2:08.7	We talk about Wilson's translator note and introduction.
2:12.8	So go back and listen to that if you have not already.
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