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.
ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST
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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.
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August 23, 2019
EPISODE 1 PENELOPE
<p>STORY 0:00 – 1:15:00 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 husband’s absence: stewardship, sexual fidelity, and raising an heir. The episode concludes with Odysseus and...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com/episode-1-penelope/">EPISODE 1 PENELOPE</a> appeared first on <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com">ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST</a>.</p>
August 23, 2019
EPISODE 2 CYCLOPS
<p>STORY 0:00 – 1:03:45 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 how to curse one’s enemies, Bronze Age style. POST-STORY COMMENTARY: UNDERSTANDING XENIA 1:03:45 – 1:25:37 The Odyssey’s...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com/episode-2-cyclops/">EPISODE 2 CYCLOPS</a> appeared first on <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com">ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST</a>.</p>
August 2, 2019
EPISODE 3 AEOLUS and THE LASTRYGONIANS
<p>STORY 0:00 – 45:00 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, in the Lastrygonian harbor of death. POST-STORY COMMENTARY: THE ODYSSEY AS LITERATURE’S DEFINING QUEST STORY 45:00 – 1:13:00 I...</p> <p>The post <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com/episode-3-aeolus-and-the-lastrygonians/">EPISODE 3 AEOLUS and THE LASTRYGONIANS</a> appeared first on <a href="https://odysseythepodcast.com">ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST</a>.</p>
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