Stop! Homer Time: The Iliad - Episodes 5 & 6 (Books 10-14)

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 94 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 10-14.

Episode 5: It's time for a three-fer! This little triptych of books explores the combat of the Iliad from a few different perspectives:

Stealth (Book 10): Diomedes and Odysseus engaging in feats of derring-do. Non-lethal Damage (Book 11): Greeks and Trojans alike suffer setbacks but most of the Dramatis Personae survive. Siege (Book 12): Did you know the Greeks ALSO have a wall? And that the Trojans are besieging THEM?!

Episode 6: We're past the halfway point, and the fighting continues, with the Trojans managing to make it behind the Greek walls to cause some trouble (not that we're ever really allowed to believe they might win). Poseidon aids the Greeks. Hera suits up and bones Zeus to sleep so that some other gods can get in on the action.

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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 podcast from the boys at
0:48.1	overdue a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read my My name is Craig. My name's Andrew. And here we are stopping once again.
0:57.0	To have some homework time. Just having a little homework time between the house.
1:02.3	On this here bespoke podcast where we read sections of Emily Wilson's
1:08.4	translation of Homer's Iliad. The Iliad. Iliad.
1:14.0	I'm
1:15.0	Homer's the Iliad.
1:16.0	I think it's gotta be like the cheat.
1:18.0	And you always say the the.
1:20.0	Okay.
1:21.0	You remember like from Home Star Strong Bad?
1:23.6	Oh, I'm familiar with Strong Bad, Cheat, Coach, and his emails.
1:29.4	Mm-hmm.
1:30.4	How does he type with those gloves?
1:32.0	How does he type with those boxing gloves? I never answered that nobody asks I guess
1:36.4	I bet he just deleted all those emails so many people asking he did do that he did delete a lot emails.
1:43.0	I wish I could have asked him if he liked the Ilyad.
1:48.0	He probably would have liked parts of it.
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