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Episode 41b - The Odyssey, Part Two

Author
Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith
Published
Wed 05 Jul 2023
Episode Link
https://shows.acast.com/save-me-from-my-shelf/episodes/episode-41-the-odyssey-part-two

Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. In the second half of our forty-first episode, we cover the last twelve books of Homer's The Odyssey (circa 800 BC). It's a delicious world, full of roast goat stomach, pig spine, and onion-peel cloaks. It's a sexy world, with plenty of Groundskeeper Willy nudity. It's an emotional world, full of crying naps and rage murder. And above all, it's a man's world, with some of the strongest misogyny we've seen so far.


Cover art © Catherine Wu.


Episode Theme: Γκάιντα Ναούσης 1498 (Wikimedia Commons)


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