Dr. Emily Hauser

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

And in fact, many kind of amateurs alike over the centuries.

So lots of people have kind of engaged in trying to find these different locations.

You find all kinds of different examples given.

So for Calypso, sometimes you get Malta, for instance, as one of the islands that's put forward.

For the island of the Phaeacians, Corfu, which is obviously just north of where we've got the modern day Ionian Islands.

it's not that far away and in fact you know this is his his last stop before he gets back to Ithaca um to me I feel like that kind of games maybe slightly reduces the sense that we are still in fantasy land you know and this is when when he comes to the palace of the king whose name is Alcinous um this palace is surrounded by an orchard with fruit that never dies you know it's it's

fruiting all through the year, that idea that we are in some kind of mystical paradise that does not exist in the real world.

I think we want to kind of make sure that we remember that this is very much a kind of other land that he then gets drawn back into the real world of humans.

Absolutely does.

And I think you're right.

And that's kind of goes back to what I said at the beginning, that this is a poem that people have lived with.

And I really love that, that it's something that has become a part of people.

So yes, if we're talking about the Odyssey itself, and we're talking about what it's doing for the narrative, maybe we can sit in fantasy.

But if we can think about what it's meant to people, then absolutely, let's do that.

Absolutely, to her parents.

And her mum says, why is he wearing something that I've woven?

Because obviously she has woven the tunic that he's wearing.

So yes, but no, that's what Odysseus needs.

He needs a ship home.

And in order to get that, he has...

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