The Iliad, rewritten & adapted into a new audio drama by George Weidman. Headphones recommended.

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Mastering by F1NG3RS

00:00 Book One: Smoldering Deserter Achilles

36:15 Commentary: Introduction to The Iliad

38:57 Translators' word choices

41:19 Trojan War terminology & cycle

43:29 Homer and the Greek alphabet

44:43 Mycenaean Greece, Homer's setting

46:23 This episode's artifact: The Pylos Combat Agate

49:22 Thanks, acknowledgements, music credits

49:50 Heroic Patron Epithets

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