Welcome to our first episode of Homer’s The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson. In this episode, Shari and Rhea take a deep dive into the history of The Odyssey and Homer… or is it Homers? They also spend a LOT of time talking about metric verse, how it was originally written in the Greek (dactylic hexameter) and how Wilson translated it into iambic pentameter. We also talk about what the heck all that means. They discuss the opening of the story, Odysseus as a “complicated man” and the importance of hospitality to this entire story.

In case you missed one of our last episodes or Substack posts on The Odyssey, here is our reading schedule:

Links to resources mentioned in this episode:

A Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

Rhea’s Substack post on The Odyssey (with links to other articles and YouTube videos discussed on this episode)

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