Dr. Emily Hauser
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jul
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But the sense is, no, the hierarchy has spoken, Zeus has spoken, and Calypso kind of has no choice but to let Odysseus go.
Yeah, I mean, what's difficult is you're thinking probably about where the audiences are coming to this from.
And probably audiences who are dealing with this and listening to this story, they kind of already know where it's going.
And that gives a flexibility to the storytelling because it means, you know, you've already started the epic.
So the epic begins with what we call a proem.
which is essentially the opening few lines that kind of set out the stakes and the narrative and where it's going.
And that sort of covers all of the trials and tribulations that he went through, all the cities he sacked, the men he lost as he was trying to get them their voyage home.
So we kind of know that that's happened, but we don't know the details.
And it's a beautiful moment of sort of like, well, you've got to wait.
And when do you have to wait until you've got to wait till Odysseus tells the story himself?
He does.
Yeah.
So he gets off Calypso's island.
He has another massive storm, obviously storms on the Mediterranean, very much a feature of Odysseus' journey.
And he gets washed up on another island, which is the island of the Phaeacians.
Yes.
So very confusingly, that island in Homer is called Scheria.
So it doesn't have anything to do.
So I like to call it the island of the Phaeacians just to kind of, you know, keep ourselves on the same page.
But yes, so he washes up on this island completely naked.
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