Daniel Mendelsohn
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Uh I I think there's a lot more active questioning and participation on the part of my women students.
So that's a kind of interesting and welcome shift over the past decades that that I've noticed.
And we talk about
Penelope and the wonderful nurse Eurycleia, and of course Circe and Calypso in a much more searching way, I would say, than we used to.
So that's a kind of reaction that has shifted just in my own, you know, the course of my own career.
And then, you know, you never know with students.
They they often come up with things, you know, out of the mouths of babes, so to speak.
You know, they come up with
things that that surprise you.
I think a lot more students now feel emboldened not to like Odysseus.
You know, they see that he is a problematic character rather than just a straightforward
hero in the way they may have been expecting.
You know, he has a dark side and a troubling side, which I think they partly because of their own excellent training as American students who have grown up with
Marvel movies and Batman, they understand about the complexities of dark heroes.
Mm-hmm.
And they sort of fix on that a lot more than they used to.
It's not just an adventure story, which I think a lot, you know, thirty-five or fifty years ago might have been the more standard response.
That's a great kind of reaction.
Absolutely.
Yes, so that was quite a life changing experience both as
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