Dr. David Butterfield
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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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He gets home, but the last thing he can do is head home and say, hey guys, I'm Odysseus, I'm back.
Why?
Because there are 108 men whose whole identity is predicated on being the new Odysseus.
The real Odysseus is dead.
No one's seen him for 20 years.
No one's heard tell of him.
He must be gone.
All of these men didn't go to Troy.
They're either the sons of warriors who went to Troy, and therefore they've grown up without credible male role models, or perhaps worse, they're people who managed to dodge the draft and didn't head to Troy at all.
They're true cowards.
And so the nature of these men, and they're portrayed in a really no-nonsense fashion, is that these are anti-men.
These aren't real men.
They're entitled, arrogant folk who believe that they've got status and purpose in the world when they've done nothing.
They've done nothing to earn it, and they've never seen true men in action.
But all of them are queued up in the hope that they will somehow win the hand of Penelope and be gifted wealth and comfort.
Odysseus is a decent warrior, but as someone who's been away for 20 years, he's not single-handedly going to take down 108 men.
So what he does over the last half of this poem, the last 12 books, it's in 24 books in the form we have it, is strategise as to how he can slowly bring on side old faithful friends who've never let him down.
This includes his dog, Argos,
And Argos is in a terrible way.
He's mangy, sleeping on a big pile of dung on his last legs.
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