You're listening to an airwave media podcast. He was famously a man of many ways, whether we interpret these as abilities or norms, designs or deceptions, reasons or character tropes.

Yet despite such resources, he was also famously stuck, making a

ten-year odyssey of his attempt to return home from a ten-year war. What keeps the man

of master plans from homecoming and domestic bliss?

In the first of a three-part discussion of Homer's Classic, we try to figure out what Odysseus

really wants and whether the Lord of Lies can master the trick of entrusting

his mind to others.

This is Wes Allwyn.

This is Aaron Olonic.

And you're listening to subtext.

So today we are discussing the Odyssey.

First 12 books.

And the first 12 books.

And we're doing the Emily Wilson. books and we've actually discussed this translation on my other

podcast the partial examined life we had her on to discuss it, which was interesting.

And you know, when I started reading this translation, I'm used to Fitzgerald, which is a very,

there's a lot of license taken with that translation and I'd even

memorize a little bit of that as a kid and then I've memorized some of the Greek as well.

Although looking at the Greek this time time it's like if I get a

lobe out and there's English on one side and there's Greek on the other I can make

some things out but it's such difficult Greek to try to translate. You know when I

first encountered her translation because it's so different

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