Wheaton College Core Book Podcast

Wheaton College Core Book Podcast, Odyssey Episode 9 – The Whole Community Enjoys a Banquet


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Content Warning: mention of suicide 5:35, discussion of sexual assault 24:58-27:29

IX    Integrating Epic and Faith – Dislocation, Homesickness – Weeping on the Shores of Babylon – Ethical Posture of Humility – Costly Hospitality – Stop the Violence – Why Christians Should Read the Odyssey – A Text in Common – Genesis 19:1-22 – Classics and Christian Thought – Classics and the English Poetic Tradition – Reading Together, Poems on Food Pantry Shelves – Golden Verses (Once Again) – Heavenly Book Club

 

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 

C.S. Lewis' Introduction to De Incarnatione (On the Incarnation) by St. Athanasius: https://credomag.com/2022/07/preface-to-on-the-incarnation-by-c-s-lewis/ 

Aldhelm’s treatise on poetry: Epistola ad Acircium: https://bookshop.org/p/books/aldhelm-the-prose-works-michael-lapidge/11843634?ean=9781843841999 

The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care edited by Anne Basting, Maureen Toweywas, and Ellie Rose: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-penelope-project-an-arts-based-odyssey-to-change-elder-care-ellie-rose/12542184?ean=9781609384135

 

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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