Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 3 & 4 (Books 5-9)

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🗓️ 30 March 2024

⏱️ 106 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 5-9.

Episode 3: These three books include: gods intervening directly on the battlefield, a new Greek hero emerging, the Trojan hero getting a boost from Ares, Hector's wife and son, and a duel with no resolution. It's action packed but also somewhat restful? (Books 5-7)

Episode 4: A lot of folks in these two books remembering that Achilles exists. Zeus presides over more fighting, and it's going poorly for the Greeks. So poorly that Agamemnon tries to make good with Achilles but man that guy knows how to be mad, huh?? (Books 8-9)

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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, Stop, or time.
0:43.0	It's a podcast from the folks that overdue a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
0:48.0	My name is Craig.
0:50.0	My name's Andrew.
0:51.0	And this is our Long Reed project dedicated to Homer's The
0:57.1	Homer's Iliad. A. A. A. A. L. Lilliard. Yeah. You't lose the huh. Yeah, it's cooler.
1:05.8	Translated by friend of the show Emily Wilson. I feel comfortable saying that.
1:10.4	Yeah, friend of the show. I think anybody you've talked to twice. Yeah.
1:14.8	Can be a friend of the show. Don't make you know it's not like you're your friends with the
1:21.5	teller at the bank.
1:22.5	Like let them be...
1:23.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah, but like, but you know, if somebody voluntarily talks with you once,
1:28.0	I don't think that necessarily means friendship,
1:30.4	but if they then come back and do it again, I think.
1:33.0	You're lifelong friends.
1:35.0	Now that's what I call friendship.
1:36.0	Craig, I have one question for you going into book five, six, and seven of the Iliad, which is what we read for this episode.
1:44.5	Yep.
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