Dr. David Butterfield
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616 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Dr. David Butterfield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Every morning he heads down to the beach and just cries all day.
That's what we're told about the man.
It looks as though the hero Odysseus, this clever figure who invented the Trojan horse and therefore took down Troy, is going to die in complete unknowable anonymity.
His name means nothing.
No one's visiting him.
No one knows where he is.
And he stands for nothing.
But Athena, the goddess up in the clouds,
has a very soft spot for Odysseus.
She regards him as a mortal version of her, someone who's really got the clever and the cunning to get out of difficult situations.
So Athena begs that a message be sent from the gods by Hermes to say, Calypso, enough is enough.
You've had your seven years with the man.
Let him go.
And he is allowed to go.
And in his wanderings thereafter, we learn about what happened before,
and what happened after he got there.
And he's been through some pretty wild adventures.
Exactly.
The Cyclops are a race, and one of them, called Polyphemus, is at the heart of this story in Book Nine.
The Cyclopes are odd, not because they're massive giants, not because they've only got one big eye in the middle of their head, nor indeed because they eat humans and in that sense, sort of cannibalistic.
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