Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John Batsworth Professor Emily Wilson whose new work is the Iliad.

I Homer, it's an audible book as well by Andrew McDonald's and I recommend the book to read

along with Audrey McDonald's reading because the actress and singer this opera singer

singer Argy McConnell has a range of voices to give you to understand their

depths of motive in these characters as they come to their moments.

And Aphrodite, every time she appeared,

something bad was going to happen.

What are we understanding about Aphrodite?

She's just one of those women who's bad, 50 miles a bad road. Is that how to think about her?

I mean all gods are bad if you're a human who gets in their way, right? I mean,

Afrodite is very dangerous to Helen, but she's also helped

Helen and got her in a position of power. I mean, so in book five, we have two gods, very unusually,

gods are on the battlefield in book five and those gods are Aphrodite and Aries,

the gods who are presented as the most borderline ridiculous among the gods themselves.

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