Dr. Emily Hauser
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jul
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And it's got sort of wolves and lions prowling around the door, already kind of rather strange.
They hear a woman singing inside and they hear the clicking and the clacking of a loom.
And as they go in, they are welcomed by this beautiful goddess, Circe.
She takes them in.
She gives them kind of food and drink.
And as they kind of consume this, they then get turned into pigs.
That's the secret formula.
She does have a wand that she kind of strikes them with like a switch almost.
And they kind of go trotting off into the pigsty.
However, one man stayed behind.
He saw all of this and he runs back to Odysseus and reports.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well, look, she turns men into pigs.
And certainly later generations, later kind of readers of Homer thought that she was a witch.
I think what's really interesting is that, in fact, in Homer, she's never called a witch.
The word that is used for her is an adjective.
It's polypharmacos.
Now there's poly again, which we heard.
Much, exactly.
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