I’m joined today by Cosima Carnegie, better known on social media as Cosi’s Odyssey: a classicist, writer, and creative producer whose work brings Greek myth and ritual into the present through essays, videos, and immersive events. We’re talking not only about her journey into Classics, but about the four books that have most influenced her on her path to scholarship. It’s a great blend that opens up conversations about childhood reading, ancient ritual, the visual imagination of Greek art, and what it means to inherit stories across generations.

Talking to Cosi was a huge amount of fun, and I know you’re going to enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.

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Cosi Carnegie’s four books were:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan (2005–09)

• Medea, Euripides (431 BC)

• The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet, François Lissarrague (1990)

• An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn (2017)