Daniel Mendelsohn
speaker
599 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Daniel Mendelsohn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Despite one's exterior, because remember, when he sees a dog, he's been transformed into a decrepit elderly beggar, he's unrecognizable as the great hero of the Trojan War.
The dog that there is some essence that is still recognizable even though
We return different from the person who left.
The scene with Penelope is very complicated because actually Homer says there were moments when they finally confront each other where it looked like him, but other moments he was unrecognizable.
You know, he ratchets up the tension because
There's something about him that feels familiar, but how could it really be him?
You know, so it really works the paradox, which is the sort of, so to speak, the shifting light in which we see someone after a long
A long time.
You know, and there is a whole school of
interpretations of the second half of the oddys, you know, the part where he comes back
Home,
Uh who believe that she is somehow
in the way that the dog was aware of him, that she too
shows an unusual interest in this uh ostensibly this elderly beggar invites him up to her room, you know, does all these things you wouldn't do with an average person.
So there is the possibility that she in this has the same sixth
sense that somehow this guy is he, even though it doesn't look anything like him.
Look, I always joke with my students, no one understands the Odyssey until you go to your 20th high school reunion.
Right.
Because then you know what it's like.
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