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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He is weeping on the island of Calypso.
And we switch from one to the other.
So it's as if they maintain this bond over the 20 years.
And she has Telemachus, who is a bit of a brat, telling you to go off to your room, mother, and you look after your women.
But, you know, he is trying to grow up in his own way.
But they are reconciled.
And at the end, we see they're telling stories to each other, which is wonderful.
So it's a matter of, it is a matter of personal opinion of what you like and what you've, partly what you're used to.
So when, for a long time, I think we used, a lot of us of a particular generation would have used Lattimore's translation, which is very, very competent.
It's very good, but it's, you know, to modern eyes, it's archaic.
And Wilson's is it is a breath of fresh air in that sense.
It's if you've never come to Homer before, it's very, very readable.
And what I love about it is I like the the translation of Odysseus as a complicated man, which which can mean so much.
And now also gives us, say, the the mental complications.
But another thing she does is to put headings for the books there.
So when you get, say, when he's starting on his journey, it's called A Pirate in the Shepherd's Cave.
And you suddenly look back at what Odysseus has been doing since he left Troy.
He's plundering other cities.
He is a pirate.
This isn't necessarily just a good guy, the good hero.
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