Dr. Emily Hauser
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jul
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And so we're now thinking back to all of those Trojan women who we encountered on the shores of Troy who were being captured by the Greeks.
And he feels their grief.
Yeah.
He hears his own story being told and it moves him to tears.
And at that point, the king, Alcinous, asks Odysseus, why are you weeping and what is your name?
And that's when Odysseus then says, I am Odysseus.
I come from Ithaca.
And he gives the story of his travels.
Yeah.
And it's interesting because this is something that most people, I think, who haven't read The Odyssey don't realise.
They think The Odyssey will be the story of Odysseus' wanderings and we'll start sort of in Troy and we'll go through.
But in fact, we have to wait eight books.
It's not until the ninth book out of 24 books of The Odyssey that we start getting actually the story of what happened after Odysseus left Troy.
Yeah.
I mean, that's later.
So basically what happened is as the poems were written down, later scholars then decided, OK, we're going to cut a book here, a book there.
But at the same time, yes, hundreds of lines of poetry that we're looking at before we start getting Odysseus giving his story.
And it's kind of miraculous because we're actually not just hearing this from a poet.
We're purportedly hearing this from Odysseus, from his own lips.
And so it's really kind of exciting as a storytelling moment that Odysseus basically becomes his own bard.
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