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Wheaton College Core Book Podcast, Odyssey Episode 4 — Visitors, Guest-friends, and Those in Need


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IV    Books 9-10 — The Golden Verses — The Most Exemplary Story(teller) — Identification with Trickery — The Cyclops, Monstrous Hospitality — Cicones — Acts of Self-Naming — Return and Rejection by Aeolus — Cannibalism and Eating — Circe — Why Pigs? — Needed Respite — Confronting Death — Elpenor

 

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/15509341?ean=9780140268867  

Richmond Lattimore’s Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  

Circe by Madeline Miller: https://bookshop.org/p/books/circe-madeline-miller/15276582?ean=9780316556323  

 

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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