The Odyssey: XII-XVI

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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And we're back with more discussion of Homer's Odyssey! David, Heidi, and Tim explore the fascinating character of Eumaeus the swineherd; Poseidon, the anti-xenia god; the Western-y nature of the second of half of the poem; and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network.
0:05.6	I'm David Kern and I am joined by Heidi White, who is actually here right now and Tim McIntosh,
0:10.7	who is getting a cup of coffee.
0:12.4	And nope, he's back.
0:13.3	I'm here.
0:14.2	Hi, Heidi, welcome to the show.
0:16.4	Thank you.
0:17.0	Thanks, David.
0:18.3	Tim, you did not have to go far to get that coffee.
0:21.0	No. He lives in a tiny house. Yeah, David. Tim, you did not have to go far to get that coffee. No.
0:22.2	He lives in a tiny house.
0:23.8	Yeah, right.
0:25.7	Well, we are here to discuss four books from the Odyssey, books 13, 14, 15, and 16.
0:31.4	After this, we will get back into the two books a week cycle and do that through the
0:37.3	end of the Odyssey. Don't forget about
0:39.9	all the other great content we have on the Close Reads podcast network. We have The Daily Poem
0:44.1	is back. In fact, we just had the one year anniversary of that. So that was pretty exciting.
0:48.2	Thanks to everyone who's been listening. We have a new batch of episodes of Libromania coming soon.
0:52.5	That will be back in September.
0:54.9	And don't forget about the place of thing.
0:57.7	Tim and our friend Sarah Jane Bentley have been going through Othello.
1:02.8	I joined them for Act 1 and then they did Act 2 and they did so good without me that I might just not need to be there anymore.
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