Dr. Emily Hauser

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The Ancients · Odyssey | Cyclops, Circe and Calypso · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And what we mean by that is it's a long verse poem.

It's written in hexameter.

That's a particular type of meter that pertains to epic.

So these are kind of all the like definitions that will tell us something about the genre.

And that's what it's kind of made up of, as it were.

And then what it's doing is it's telling the story of Odysseus, its central hero.

and it's telling the tale of his voyage home.

So we've got a long epic poem.

It's being kind of sung probably in oral poetry, and it's telling the tale of a hero.

Yeah, I mean, it's easy to sort of say, well, I've given you a definition that makes it sound like it's a kind of rather antiquated type of poem.

And it's about one hero, like, why should we care about this?

I think there are a couple of different ways really of going into it.

The first is that it's just a jolly good story.

It really is just an amazing kind of story of adventure, of kind of heartbreak, loss and longing, kind of one man's discovery of himself and his journey home.

But also perhaps more deeply than that, it's a story that has been taken for millennia to kind of mean something to people.

And people have read it in different ways.

They've responded to it.

So, yes, Christopher Nolan is responding to it.

But at the same time, he is kind of the end of just many different people who have had this poem as part of their lives.

And for me, that's a really good reason to keep reading it.

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