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Wheaton College Core Book Podcast, Odyssey Episode 4 — Visitors, Guest-friends, and Those in Need

Wheaton College Core Book Podcast

Release Date: 10/25/2024

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Content Warning: mention of suicide 5:35, discussion of sexual assault 24:58-27:29 IX    Integrating Epic and Faith – Dislocation, Homesickness – Weeping on the Shores of Babylon – Ethical Posture of Humility – Costly Hospitality – Stop the Violence – Why Christians Should Read the Odyssey – A Text in Common – Genesis 19:1-22 – Classics and Christian Thought – Classics and the English Poetic Tradition – Reading Together, Poems on Food Pantry Shelves – Golden Verses (Once Again) – Heavenly Book Club   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey...

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Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault 17:48-18:30, 20:18-20:39, 26:28-29:00 VIII Books 21-24 – Archery Contest – The Bow’s Revenge, Bad Archers – Sons Supplant Fathers – The Bow and the Lyre, Instruments of Truth – Tactical Stripping – Restitution and Vengeance – A Poet Spared, a Priest Slaughtered – The Serving Women – Jarring Transition – Another Test (For the Early-Recognition Thesis) – The Bed – Facing Forward – Endings – Storytelling – Back to the Underworld – Revenge Cycles and Requirements for Peace   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey...

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Content Warning: death of a dog: 19:53-20:15, examination of slavery in the ancient world 20:16-23:42 VII     Books 17-20 – Tension, Recognition, Condemnation – Lion Among Fawns, Revenge Reciprocity – Entertaining Gods Unawares – Telemachus Sneezes – Faithful Argos – Slavery and Arete – A Boxing Match – Athena Hardens Amphinomus’s Heart – Odysseus’s Scar – Odussomai and a Boarhunt – When and What Does Penelope Know? – Irony Over Psychology – A Fugitive Prophesies – Telemachus Finally Gives a Good Speech   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s...

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VI    Book 13-16 – Complication in Homecoming – Questioning Athena – Father-Son Parallels – Why the Phaecians Are Punished, or Divine Contradiction – Fully Rendered Deceptions – Purposes of Storytelling – Fellowship – The Hospitable Golden Mean – Theoclymenus – Oh My Swineherd – A Tale of Two Similes – Eumaeus Like a Father – Telamachus and Odysseus Like Eagles – Helen, Arete, Penelope Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:    Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation:    Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation:...

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Content Warning: mention of suicide (7:32-7:40) V    Books 11-12 – Katabasis – Why So Many Ghosts? – The List of Women – A Break in the Telling – Moving on to the Men – Agamemnon’s Questionable Advice – Achilles, a Perspective on Glory – Shades and Sons – Responsibility and Lies – Scylla, a Rock and a Hard Place – Hearing the Sirens – Cattle and the Tale’s End   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:  Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation:   Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation:   Bird Odyssey by Barbara Hamby:...

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IV    Books 9-10 — The Golden Verses — The Most Exemplary Story(teller) — Identification with Trickery — The Cyclops, Monstrous Hospitality — Cicones — Acts of Self-Naming — Return and Rejection by Aeolus — Cannibalism and Eating — Circe — Why Pigs? — Needed Respite — Confronting Death — Elpenor   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:    Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation:    Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation:    Circe by Madeline Miller:      Do you have questions about the...

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Content Warning: brief discussion of sexual abuse (6:18-8:22) III Books 5-8 – Visions of the Domestic Life – Since the Nymph No Longer Pleased – Structural Temptations – Fading Away, the Man Without Land – The Marriage Plot Thickens – Similes – Despair to Their Enemies, a Joy to all Their Friends – Arete – Sleep, the Order in the Text – Men at Peace: Poetry, Presents, Sports – Quarrel Between Achilles and Odysseus – Aphrodite and Ares – The Trojan Horse – Weeping as a Woman – Prophecy Against the Phaecians   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey...

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II    Books 1-4 – Why not Odysseus? – Zeus’s Complaint, Complex Causation – Paradigms for Homecoming – Ithaca as It Ought to Be – Telemachus Tries on Authority – Succession – Noblesse Oblige – Suffering and Storytelling – Nostos – Repetition Reasons – The Problem of Helen – What is a Functioning Marriage and Home?   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:  Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation:   Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation:   Nobody: A Hymn To the Sea by Alice Oswald:     Do you have...

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I    First Impressions – The Proem – Odysseus Polytropos, a complicated man – Translation Choices – The Trojan War – Historical and Geographic Concerns – Sing for Our Time Too – Poetic Voice, Meta-storytelling – The Poem’s Central Concerns – The Start of Something Great   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:    Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation: Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation:   Eva Brann, Homeric Moments:   Epic: The Musical:     Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at...

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IV    Books 9-10 — The Golden Verses — The Most Exemplary Story(teller) — Identification with Trickery — The Cyclops, Monstrous Hospitality — Cicones — Acts of Self-Naming — Return and Rejection by Aeolus — Cannibalism and Eating — Circe — Why Pigs? — Needed Respite — Confronting Death — Elpenor

 

Works mentioned:

Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 

Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  

Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  

Circe by Madeline Miller: https://bookshop.org/p/books/circe-madeline-miller/15276582?ean=9780316556323  

 

Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu

Find more about what we’re doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/  

 

Host:

Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College 
https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ 
https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead 
https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading 

 

Conversation Partners:

Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College

Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&  

 

Credits:

The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas

Executive Producer: Emma Smith

Music: Tristen Guzman

Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt

Audio Editing: Emma Smith

Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith

Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.