Oh-My-Geekers

Season 6 Episode 2 - The Iliad


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Who was Homer? Did the city of Troy really exist? And if it did, why did the Greeks attack it?


Join us on the Oh-My-Geekers podcast while we uncover Zeus’s devious plans for population control, Achilles’ legendary temper tantrum, and Paris’ misguided quest to become a stud as we dive into the first part of Homer’s Iliad. 


Further Reading: 


https://www.britannica.com/biography/Homer-Greek-poet/Modern-inferences 


https://archive.org/details/herodotus-life-of-homer-loeb-496-archive/mode/2up 


https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Dark_Age/ 


https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/search-lost-city-troy 


https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=3&highlight=Judgment+of+Paris%2C 


https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6150/pg6150-images.html


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