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David Grubbs, Nathan Gilmour, and Jay Eldred talk about books three and four of Homer’s Odyssey.
SHOW NOTES
- Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961) and Robert Fagles (1996).
- Nathan attributes the term “The Greatest Generation” to the great scholar Thomus Brokias.
- N.B.: The story of Prometheus’s tricking the gods into preferring the bones comes from Hesiod’s Theogony.
- David waxes rhapsodic about Edith Hamilton.
- The issue of sacrificing meat to idols was very important to the early Church.
- Athena makes Jay think of Henry V.
- The Hebrew Bible shares Homer’s concern with hospitality–and for many of the same reasons.
- Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.
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