The Odyssey: Final Books

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Join David, Tim, and Heidi as they arrive at the end of the Odyssey. Conversation touches on Telemachus' evolution, the way the various themes come together, the stories behind stories, modes of reading, and much more. Don't forget to send in your questions for next episode!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Streets here on the Close Streets podcast.
0:05.5	Network, I am David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.
0:08.9	And we are here to discuss the final two books of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.
0:14.0	Heidi and Tim, welcome back to the show.
0:16.5	How's it going?
0:17.7	I'm so sad to be done with The Odyssey.
0:19.7	I don't.
0:20.2	Can we do it again?
0:21.3	We barely scratched the surface.
0:24.0	How do you think audiences would do if we did the Iliad?
0:28.1	I mean, I'm thinking of the last podcast that we did when we talked about.
0:33.1	Young men seem to kind of lean toward the battles of the Iliad.
0:38.6	Young women tend to lean toward the kind of possibility of reunited matrimony
0:44.2	between Odysseus and Penelope.
0:46.8	How would our audience, do you guys think,
0:50.0	how do you think they would do with the Iliad?
0:51.9	They would probably love it, but...
0:54.5	Should they be fun?
0:55.6	Is it worth doing?
0:57.3	Well, yeah, I mean, one day, not next.
1:00.0	Let's make some decisions.
1:01.0	Let's just pound it out.
	...

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