Dr Catherine Ware
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141 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Dr Catherine Ware’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it is also Telemachus' story, and the two, they come together at the end.
Yes, indeed.
And this happened very early on.
The ancients saw that Homer was the source of all literature.
And it was interpreted allegorically very early on, so that when Circe turns men into pigs, it's a comment on their real nature.
then later epic writers would look back to Homer and either react against him, but you couldn't ignore him.
He had to be there.
So things like, as George was saying, the importance of this journey to the underworld, that turns up in so many epics onwards and becomes central to things like Dante later on or Milton.
Our James Joyce in Ulysses, our Heaney writing, you know, so it appears all the time.
And the stories themselves, they're just such good stories.
And what we find in the Odyssey as well, it's as well as the heroic stories.
We have, and this isn't my field, but this is, we're almost into folk myth.
These are the stories of the trickster who has to get himself out, who has to use his wits.
He can't just, Odysseus will pick up swords and bows and arrows and fight his way out, but primarily he thinks his way through and he's clever.
And the idea that the smaller person can access these, those sort of stories.
Yeah, she is an amazing woman.
And she is presented as the female equivalent of Odysseus.
They're both lion-hearted or lion-like.
And she also, she uses her wits to keep the suitors at a distance.
She says, I can't choose until I finish spinning the shroud for my father-in-law and then unweaves it every night.
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