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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But he recognizes the true Odysseus and is so overcome with joy, with dog joy, he dies.
He dies in the moment.
That's so Greek.
He dies in the moment.
He's so happy.
Exactly.
That's his beautiful death.
But it's strategically helpful because the last thing Odysseus would want in disguise is a dog trotting after him who senses that something's up.
So he turns to the lowest people in the social hierarchy.
He turns to the swine herd, the pig herd, Eumaeus, the cow herd, Philoetius, and eventually he brings his son in.
And with the help of Athena, the four of them ultimately slaughter everyone.
Now, Odysseus was told by Tiresias, the great prophet, when he went down to the underworld, not only that this needs to be done, but that it will happen.
You've got to get home.
You need to kill them all.
He kills 12 women, which is a more controversial part of it.
He kills 12 women who've been sleeping with the suitors, has them all hanged.
then he says that's not enough all the families of the suitors are gonna you know create a longer civil war so he goes and kills all of them and then athena says okay stop that's it let's now have peace and that is the end of the poem can we just once because we missed out uh one of my favorite scenes which was with the bow of course so the person i've said almost nothing about
but is the other half of the poem who needs to be remembered when reading almost any line, is Penelope.
Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, the queen of Ithaca.
She has no idea what has happened to Odysseus.
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