The Odyssey: Books III-IV
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Join David, Heidi, and Tim for more conversation about Homer's classic epic poem. in this episode they chat about the role of the gods in the story, the complicated nature of ancient Greek paganism, whether the characters in the book have "faith," and much, much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Streets Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Hi to Tim. Welcome back to the show. How's it going? |
| 0:15.3 | It's going great, David. Thanks. It's going great, David. So we are here to discuss the Odyssey of Homer. Homer's the Odyssey. What do you guys say on that? Do you say possessive or do you say to put the oven there? |
| 0:27.9 | I guess I do possessive. Yeah, I do too. Homer's the Odyssey? Yeah, but I don't really say it that way. I can't even know. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah, I dropped the logical. What did that way. I can't even know. I dropped the article. |
| 0:39.1 | What'd you say? |
| 0:39.9 | Homer's Odyssey. |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, it's funny because... Doesn't it kind of depend on how familiar you assume your interlocutor is with classical literature? |
| 0:52.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.1 | If you say it to anybody that runs in our circles, you just probably say the oddity. |
| 0:59.5 | But if you need to be more specific, you say, if I needed to be more specific, I might even just, excuse me, that was not clear. |
| 1:06.7 | If I needed, if I was talking with someone and I didn't think they had, they were really handy with classical literature, I might just say Homer. |
| 1:15.6 | Yes. |
| 1:16.5 | Instead of designating the Odyssey. |
| 1:18.1 | Yes. That's a good distinction. |
| 1:20.8 | Huh. I have to think about that one. Okay. So anyway, we're here to discuss Homer is the Odyssey. |
| 1:26.1 | And there was even debate about whether or not |
| 1:28.2 | V is supposed to be part of the title. So it seems to depend |
| 1:31.3 | a little bit on how you approach it. Even on the dust jacket |
| 1:35.2 | well actually it's not a dust jacket because it's a paperback |
| 1:37.4 | but on the little description of the book |
| 1:39.4 | on this in one place it says the Odyssey with the V in italics and another |
| 1:43.3 | place it just says Odyssey without the V and italics. So even on Emily Wilson's translation done by Norton, |
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