Finding the Lit

Episode 46 - Book 9 of The Odyssey, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "The archetypal story and the transition from oral to writ word.""


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Join Adrian and Nathan for the first portion of our discussion of Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation. We discuss the structure of one of the original stories, and discuss how different a performed Odyssey would be from written accounts.


00:00-Introduction

04:04-Book 9 begins

06:41-Discussion of The Odyssey's structure

11:28-Odysseus sailing through storms

15:32-The Lotus Eaters

19:48-How the oral tradition of stories worked

25:11-Closing thoughts

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