Emily Wilson
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first heard Aug 2026
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And it's also a plural way of dealing with grief.
It's not the singularity of my grief and my rage is bigger than anyone else's and I'm going to blow up the whole world because of my grief and rage.
Instead, there's a sense throughout the Odyssey journeying books of you're living with Akos, you're living with a kind of grief, but it's a grief that you have to somehow contain in order to keep on going, which I think is a very different mode in relation to pain and loss.
Yeah, I think...
I mean, Wilson, in that whole sequence, is very explicitly alluding to Andromache's grief for Hector.
I mean, Adam is doing the same thing that Andromache does for Hector, even though she fears that he may never come back for battle, but she prepares something nice for him, the equivalent of the garland, the hot baths that Andromache prepares for Hector, but he's never going to have a hot bath ever again.
She sees from the walls that he's being dragged behind a kiddies chariot and her headdress drops down.
So it's the same sort of choreography of grief where it's not just that she feels something internally, but also there's this gesture which is very cinematically close, a close up observed of here's the headdress that she got when she came there as a bride and it falls down and she's rushing to sacrifice.
to see more closely what's happening, and the horses are dragging the body behind the chariot, and she's noticing the clothes that she made herself getting dragged in the dust and observing, and you can sort of see moment by moment.
I think in a way it's more powerful because it doesn't just say, she was very sad and she was really disappointed because she really hoped that he would come and take a nice hot bath, and it doesn't say any of that, but you get to see it by the external details
moment by moment of what does she do, and how does her clothing change, how do her gestures change, as she's in that moment of grief.
Can I come in on this real quick?
I love that.
Can I say one thing about lagging?
I love talking about lagging.
I love the moment.
On Scaria, when Odysseus is visiting the Phaeacians, the Phaeacians are excellent hosts who love partying, they love hot baths, and it's a whole hot baths theme in this conversation.
They love dancing, they love wearing great clothes, and they also love sports.
Fun people.
Fun people, but they love sports in a way that actually is kind of toxic.
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