Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode.Join us for Part 4 of the Odyssey where Odysseus is finally back home in Ithaca after years away.  There are several rough encounters with the Suitors, a lot of testing of loyalty, and many more tearful reunions.

Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode.Part 3 of the Odyssey bring some of its most iconic episodes: Odysseus' hoodwinking of the cyclops, the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis, the black magic of Circe, a start-studded trip through Hades, and Odysseus' arrival back in Ithaca.

Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode. Sink your teeth into Part 2 of the Odyssey, wherein Odysseus meets Princess Nausicaa in a scene of titillating nudity, a bard regales us with a raunchy tale of godly adultery, and the lotus eaters lure Odysseus' men with a tantalizing fruit.

Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode. The Odyssey begins with Odysseus held captive on the island of the goddess Calypso while, back home in Ithaca, his son Telemachus sets off in search of news of his father. Telemachus reaches Sparta and there hears the story of the Trojan Horse.A thanks to LibriVox and Mark Nelson for the readings.

Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to this week's and next week's readings.The finale for our four-part Iliad series. This last section is chock full of engrossing scenes, from Achilles' fight with a river god to the death of Hector, the funeral games for Patroclus, King Priam's visit to the Greek camp, and more!Thanks again to Gene Kim, our reader for the week and a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.

Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims). Things get rollin' in part three as major warriors on both sides incur grave wounds and fall dead. And Achilles at last launches out violently onto the battlefield, resplendent in heavenly armor.A big thanks to Gene Kim, our reader for the week and a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.

Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to this week's and next week's readings.Homer takes us for a brief trip inside Troy, we wade through a some filler chapters, and Hera seduces Zeus.

Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to this week's and next week's readings.We launch into the vast Greek war epic that is the Iliad and lay down some background.

Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-24-in-56446230) and find links to this week's and next week's readings. Anton Chekov's In the Ravine is one of the longest stories he wrote. It is a microscopic view of the sociological changes afoot at the time. Greed and jealousy run rife through the narrative of this tragedy, but Chekov's humour and astute observations make this story an engrossing read.This episode is part of our 19th century Russian literature cycle.

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The second half of Tolstoy's novella provides masterful character descriptions of the Russian and Chechen leaders and draws to a spectacularly bloody and moving close.

 

This episode is part of our 19th century Russian literature cycle.