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ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST
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EPISODE 1 PENELOPE
August 23, 2019 · 1 hr 33 minSTORY 1:14:49 listening time Odysseus – “the polytropus man” – sets sail for home. Adventures at Ismarus and in the Land of the Lotus Eaters follow. A detailed flashback takes us to Ithaka, to explore Penelope’s three duties in her…
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EPISODE 2 CYCLOPS
August 23, 2019 · 1 hr 26 minSTORY 1:03:45 listening time This episode includes all of the adventures – the horror, the comedy, and the strategy – inside the cyclops Polyphemus’ cave. The episode concludes with Odysseus being cursed, followed by a short primer on…
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EPISODE 3 AEOLUS and THE LASTRYGONIANS
August 2, 2019 · 1 hr 13 minSTORY 46:05 listening time The Great Wanderings continue, and disaster follows disaster. First Odysseus squanders opportunity for easy homecoming via King Aeolus’ magical bag of wind. And then Odysseus loses most of his ships and crew…
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EPISODE 4 CIRCE
August 1, 2019 · 1 hr 18 minSTORY 55:57 listening time Odysseus’ crew arrive on Circe’s island, where they are transformed into pigs (most likely for behaving like pigs). After rescuing his crew, Odysseus decides to postpone his homecoming a full year, unwilling to…
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EPISODE 5 ODYSSEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
July 31, 2019 · 1 hr 13 minSTORY 53:00 listening time Odysseus visits the underworld and has some interesting conversations with the dead. His mom warns him about the deteriorating situation in Ithaka; Agamemnon warns him about the fidelity of wives (an Odyssey…
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EPISODE 6 SIRENS, SCYLLA, CHARYBDIS and SOME COWS
July 30, 2019 · 1 hr 18 minSTORY 58:55 listening time Odysseus listens to the Sirens. I pause to provide a historical review of how Sirens evolved over time, following Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus then chooses between Charybdis and Scylla, and I pause to relate a…
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EPISODE 7 CALYPSO
July 29, 2019 · 1 hr 3 minSTORY 53:58 listening time The episode opens in year seven of Odysseus’ long, largely undocumented sojourn on Calypso’s island. Odysseus is longing for home, apparently unmoved by the promise of immortality with a goddess. Up on Mount…
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EPISODE 8 TELEMACHUS
July 28, 2019 · 54 minSTORY 54:12 listening time At the same time as Hermes takes flight to Calypso’ island, in order to rescue Odysseus, Athena takes flight to Ithaka, in order to “rescue” 20-year old Telemachus: from his remarkable immaturity. This episode…
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EPISODE 9 TELEMACHUS, MENELAUS, and HELEN OF TROY
July 27, 2019 · 1 hr 12 minSTORY 49:47 listening time Athena sends Telemachus off on his first ever “road trip” – to Pylos and to Sparta – in the hopes that it might help the milquetoast young man to “grow a pair”. Telemachus meets some familiar characters from…
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EPISODE 10 NAUSICAA
July 26, 2019 · 1 hr 30 minSTORY 1:04:45 listening time At the same time as Athena is in Ithaka – “mentoring” Telemachus – Odysseus washes ashore the land of the Phaeacians: badly beat up, half-starved, and totally naked. And his only hope of receiving the xenia…
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EPISODE 11 DEMODOCUS and THE PHAECIANS
July 25, 2019 · 1 hr 37 minSTORY 1:17:58 listening time Odysseus – his identity still a secret – spends a very full day as the guest of the King Alcinous and Queen Arete. Most of the day is spent in Odysseus doing his best to NOT reveal his identity. But songs…
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EPISODE 12 HOMECOMING
July 24, 2019 · 1 hr 33 minSTORY 1:33:00 listening time Odysseus – after twenty years away – wakes up on the shores of his own dear Ithaka. Athena provides her boy with an intelligence briefing, a reconnoiter strategy, and, of course, a disguise. And then…
About the show
Odyssey: The Podcast is a serialized telling in contemporary language, of Homer’s Odyssey. Over twenty-three hours, master storyteller Jeff Wright delivers a fast-paced, literate, and addictive performance. Each episode features a continuation of the story arc, followed by engaging commentary on the social, cultural and political contexts helpful to maximizing your fun with Homer’s story. Odyssey: The Podcast works brilliantly as a free-standing story, or as a sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast.