The Odyssey: Books 1-2

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

It's time for a new book! Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dive into Homer's Odyssey, books one and two. Discussion touches on the purpose of these early books, Telemachus' journey, the relationship between the gods and humans, Penelope's wisdom, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Heidi and Tim was going on.
0:22.5	Welcome back to the show. Thank you. Thanks, David. Thanks, David. I'm so excited to do the
0:26.9	honesty. Welcome back from Louisville, you guys. Thanks. We missed you, Tim. I missed you guys.
0:31.4	I cried every day, every day. Weeping. I love it. I love it. Like Penelope.
0:36.4	Oh, nice segue. It was it? Was it? No, it. I love it. Like Penelope. Oh, nice segue.
0:39.0	It was it? Was it? No, it kind of felt a little forced.
0:43.0	Sorry.
0:43.2	It was a little force. David. And also a lie, but I, which is like Odysseus and Penelope.
0:51.4	Except for, yeah, anyway, we'll get there.
0:55.3	Except for a lot of things, just to be clear.
0:57.6	Okay, so we are here to begin our conversation of The Odyssey by Homer.
1:02.4	Homer's The Odyssey.
1:03.9	We're going to be using the translation that came out a couple of years ago,
1:07.9	which was done by Emily Wilson.
1:10.2	If you are not aware, I did interview Emily Wilson in December of 2017 about this new
1:16.6	translation. I did that for the former podcast. I posted that on the Facebook page, and I will
1:21.1	be sending that out this week as well in an email. So if you want to get access to that,
1:25.9	you can check one of those two sources, or you can subscribe to that podcast and find that episode.
1:31.4	I think it's episode seven or eight, and that goes, like I said, that's back in December of 2017.
1:35.8	So wherever you get podcasts, you can find that.
1:38.1	If you want to join the conversation, you can head over to the Facebook group, search for Close Reeds Podcast Discussion Group, and you can join the conversation. We will be discussing books one and two this week,
1:49.8	so I'm sure that there will be a lively discussion about those two books, the books within the book,
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