Daniel Mendelsohn

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599 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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The History of Literature · 817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

She gets this this young man off of his butt and sends him on this mission.

But so I think it's actually a very it may be risky, but it's very satisfying gesture because you keep hearing about Odysseus.

For four books, people are telling stories about him.

You know, Telemachus goes around interviewing his father's old war buddies from the Trojan War.

So you, the audience, keep hearing about him, and it it's a wonderful way of building up.

your curiosity and the sort of suspense.

So that by the time you finally get to book five and the the the camera, so to speak, sort of zooms in on Odysseus, who's now being held captive on this island by Calypso, the nymph who's in love with him.

Іт' заріл с драма.

I think that you would not have

achieved if you had just started with him, you know.

So it's it's a delaying tactic that I think

pays off, but I I do think you're right.

It's a risky gesture, but you know, he's sort of hanging in the air without being present.

And so in a funny way, Homer makes you feel

like one of the people of Ithaca, you know, you know about this guy, you're waiting for him, but he's nowhere to be seen.

So I think it's a very cunning narrative.

Gesture actually.

Right.

Well, that's exactly what he's doing.

You know, also it's a it's a trick in Italian opera, right?

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