Dr. Emily Hauser

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1,990 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 26 Jul

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

Remember about getting back home, Odysseus?

They've been there as well.

Yeah.

But it's them who remind him it's not Odysseus.

Interesting.

Well, she's a really big part of the narrative because she's the one who gives him the instructions about where he needs to go next.

So actually he goes on from her, he does his next bit and then he comes back to her again.

So it's a really important, she's a really important kind of motivator for this.

Well, his next thing that he's got to do, and this is what Cersei sets him up for, is the underworld.

Well, and Cersei's a really appropriate one to point him towards the underworld because she is a goddess who is, as we've seen, implicated in kind of herbal magic.

She's a goddess who is implicated in sex, and she's also a kind of goddess of death.

And she points him towards the land of the dead.

And she says, if you want to get back home to Ithaca...

You need to go and you need to commune with the spirits of the dead.

Above all, Tiresias, who is a blind prophet, who is the one who knows more than anyone else.

And he will be able to tell you how to get back home.

Yeah, it's pretty specific.

And Circe is the one who knows the instructions.

So luckily for Odysseus, she knows the way.

So she tells him kind of where to sail.

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