VI Book 13-16 – Complication in Homecoming – Questioning Athena – Father-Son Parallels – Why the Phaecians Are Punished, or Divine Contradiction – Fully Rendered Deceptions – Purposes of Storytelling – Fellowship – The Hospitable Golden Mean – Theoclymenus – Oh My Swineherd – A Tale of Two Similes – Eumaeus Like a Father – Telamachus and Odysseus Like Eagles – Helen, Arete, Penelope

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

The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey by Alexander Loney: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn: https://bookshop.org/p/books/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-daniel-mendelsohn/8631679?ean=9780345806215

The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood: https://bookshop.org/p/books/penelopiad-margaret-atwood/7183907?ean=9780571239498

The Odyssey: A Stage Version by Derek Walcott: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-a-stage-version-homer/10384209?ean=9780374523879

Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks: https://bookshop.org/p/books/father-comes-home-from-the-wars-parts-1-2-3-suzan-lori-parks/10469736?ean=9781559365000

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.