The Odyssey: Books V-VIII
Close Reads Podcast
Goldberry Studios
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
David, Heidi, and Tim are back with more conversation about The Odyssey. They discuss the question of Odysseus' faithfulness, they compare Nausikaa and Calypso, and they discuss the role of this section in the grand scheme of the poem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined |
| 0:07.3 | by my old friends Heidi White and Tim McIntosh. Hidy, Tim. How's it going? Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:12.4 | Thanks, David. Thanks, David. It's going great. We are here to discuss books 5, 6, 7, and 8 of The Odyssey. Homer's the Odyssey. We get to meet Odysseus |
| 0:24.2 | finally after four books of, well, I was going to say set up, but that's not really fair to the |
| 0:28.8 | telemiki. But after four books, we finally get to meet Odysseus. If you want to join the |
| 0:33.3 | conversation about The Odyssey, you can do so on our Facebook group. You can search Close |
| 0:38.0 | Reads podcast discussion in the search bar on Facebook or whatever they call that. You can also |
| 0:43.8 | follow us on Instagram and on Twitter at Close Rees Pods and you can email us at closereads |
| 0:47.4 | podcast at gmail.com. We also do have a email newsletter which I've been trying to send it every |
| 0:52.7 | week, but at least every other week. And that's you sign up for at close reads.substack.com. I just sent out an email that has a video |
| 1:01.6 | that our friends over at Roman Roads Media put together, where Wes Callahan is explaining |
| 1:06.2 | Dactylicexaminer. It's a short little three-minute video. So he really gets it. He really |
| 1:10.8 | understands that he reads some of the original Greek, and he kind of breaks down what Homer was doing |
| 1:14.8 | and what the original Greek sounds like and the purposes of it and the effects of that. So if you |
| 1:19.8 | want to learn more about that and do kind of a deep dive, check out that email. I also posted that |
| 1:24.2 | on the Facebook group if you didn't get the email. So lots of good information in that email. |
| 1:29.1 | But we are here, as I said, to discuss books, five, six, seven, and eight. |
| 1:33.2 | And what I was thinking is since we're covering four books, |
| 1:35.8 | why don't we do a bit of a summary of what happened in each book just to get our bearings? |
| 1:41.3 | So here's what I was thinking. |
| 1:42.9 | Tim, are you there? Are you with us? |
| 1:45.9 | I sure am. Okay. So this is what I want to do. Let's rotate through and each take a book and in one, |
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