- 119
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 103
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
About Subject to Change
I talk to the world's best historians and let them tell the stories. And the stories are wonderful! (And occasionally I change the subject and talk about films, philosophy or whatever!).
- Publisher
- Russell Hogg
- Category
- education · history · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Sept 2018
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 119 episodes have a transcript.
12 Oct 2026
Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming - (pt 2 of 2) - The Knight of the National Name
28 Sept 2026
Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming (pt 1 of 2) - death by a thousand haircuts
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Odyssey - No sex, terrible food
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The Odyssey - No sex, terrible food
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Huge poems. And that is 500 years after the original songs were sung. So we believe, and I think there's scholarly evidence to suggest, that these were not the original sung songs of Homer, There's been a lot of accretion over 500 years, if you think about it. Additions, maybe whole books. So book 10, for example, we think of the Iliad is not part of the original Iliad. And I think it's difficult to say that we have Homer's Iliad and Homer's Odyssey. What we have are wonderful epics that have emerged from an original song. These were then put into a written form either by people to whom he dictated those epics, so that's one very leading theory about it, that Homer himself was an illiterate bard but dictated his songs. […]
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- Jonathan Clements
- Armand D'Angour
- Donald Rayfield
- Norman Douglas
- Edward Shawcross
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 61 ratings
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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