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David Grubbs, Carla Godwin, and Jordan Poss talk about books sixteen and seventeen of Homer’s Iliad.
Show Notes
- Our translations of the Iliad: Richmond Lattimore (1951) and Robert Fagles (1990).
- Thetis hopes Achilles has fun storming the castle.
- Myrmex means ant in Greek, so Jordan is right to see hordes of Myrmidons. And yes, our verb hector comes from the hero of Troy.
- Rick Steves’s Rome got Carla thinking about the Coliseum and the gladiators.
- The Hunger Games is “a terrible version” of the Iliad.
- *COUGHCOUGHWESTILLHATETROYCOUGHCOUGHCOUGH*
- Sophocles’s Antigone and Homer’s Odyssey show us the importance of burial rites.
- Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.
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