Dr. Emily Hauser

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

And he actually ends up committing suicide really tragically.

So Odysseus is very much embroiled in all of the kind of politics of the Trojan War and the Greek camp.

Absolutely.

We should see him as a king.

We should see him as a warrior.

You know, he is not just the Odysseus of the Odyssey, who is the man who is trying to get home.

That is what that particular epic poem is doing.

That's what it's about.

But when you put him in the Iliad, when you put him in a war epic and you put him in a Trojan War, he is going to fight and he's going to be a warrior and a king, just like all of the other Greeks.

We don't have evidence from the literature about how he's feeling, but we know what's happening and what is happening is pretty dire.

So when Troy has been burned to the ground, one of the key features of that burning is that the women of the Trojans all get enslaved and captured by the Greeks.

And they are particularly keen to enslave women who are high status.

So they all get portioned out and Odysseus gets given Hecuba, who is the queen of Troy.

So he gets an incredibly high status enslaved captive woman.

So there is a huge tragedy there.

And that's something that later writers are really interested in.

At the same time,

What is happening in the kind of capture of Troy is deeply unsalitary.

And one of these kinds of like moments where it just really shifts towards the dark side is when we get another Ajax.

Now, this isn't the same Ajax we talked about earlier.

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