Hi everyone!

Thought I’d try going off the cuff for an episode and answering a question posed on the substack chat! This might be a good way for me to produce more stuff for you to listen to between the main episodes. I think it could be fun to get some dialogue and questions going back and forth online, so if you have any questions feel free to ask!

In this first episode I answer a question on whether the seduction of Zeus episode is an interpolation to Homer, I also talk about horses in the Iliad, and finish off with some of my thoughts on the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. Enjoy!

Also here are some sources used for the episode, and some interesting articles I found:

* Dué, C. (2009). Recapturing a Homeric legacy. Center for Hellenic Studies ; Distributed by Harvard University Press.

* Chevaux et cavaliers dans l’Iliade “Horses and Riders in the Iliad” Michel Woronoff. https://books.openedition.org/pur/25517

* Franko, G. F. (2005). The Trojan Horse at the Close of the “Iliad.” The Classical Journal, 101(2), 121–123. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30038644

* Davison, J. A. (1952). The Homeric Horse [Review of Le Cheval dans l’Iliade, by É. Delebecque]. The Classical Review, 2(3/4), 149–151. http://www.jstor.org/stable/701882

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