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Wheaton College Core Book Podcast, Odyssey Episode 1 – Find the Beginning
I First Impressions – The Proem – Odysseus Polytropos, a complicated man – Translation Choices – The Trojan War – Historical and Geographic Concerns – Sing for Our Time Too – Poetic Voice, Meta-storytelling – The Poem’s Central Concerns – The Start of Something Great
Works mentioned:
Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250
Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer
Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498
Eva Brann, Homeric Moments: https://bookshop.org/p/books/homeric-moments-clues-to-delight-in-reading-the-odyssey-and-the-iliad-eva-brann/8918756?ean=9780967967578
Epic: The Musical: https://www.epicthemusical.com/
Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at [email protected]
Find more about what we’re doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/
Host:
Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/
https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead
https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading
Conversation Partners:
Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College
Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&
Credits:
The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.
Executive Producer: Emma Smith
Music: Tristen Guzman
Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt
Audio Editing: Emma Smith
Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith
Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.
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By Wheaton CollegeI First Impressions – The Proem – Odysseus Polytropos, a complicated man – Translation Choices – The Trojan War – Historical and Geographic Concerns – Sing for Our Time Too – Poetic Voice, Meta-storytelling – The Poem’s Central Concerns – The Start of Something Great
Works mentioned:
Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250
Robert Fagles’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer
Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498
Eva Brann, Homeric Moments: https://bookshop.org/p/books/homeric-moments-clues-to-delight-in-reading-the-odyssey-and-the-iliad-eva-brann/8918756?ean=9780967967578
Epic: The Musical: https://www.epicthemusical.com/
Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at [email protected]
Find more about what we’re doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/
Host:
Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/
https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead
https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading
Conversation Partners:
Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College
Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&
Credits:
The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.
Executive Producer: Emma Smith
Music: Tristen Guzman
Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt
Audio Editing: Emma Smith
Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith
Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.