Jacke (Jack) Wilson

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1,063 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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The History of Literature · 817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

it feels almost like a a bit of uh you know we're introduced to him slowly and we see him offstage before we see him in person and and it's very effective but it did strike me as being something that's uh effective in a kind of unconventional way.

Per thing.

Yeah, and you also you see enough of his home that you care about it.

You care about what's happening with these suitors and with Penelope who's holding them off and with his son and you you you really do the stakes are raised.

Uh but when you say that about him coming in in the middle, it reminds me of uh Orson Wells and and uh in the third man where he comes in, you know, halfway through

through the movie and they said, Did you have concerns about being a movie star but not being in half of the movie?

And he said, Are you kidding?

Are

You know, that's an entrance.

They talk about me the whole time.

Right.

Now you've been teaching this for a while and to a lot of students, do you find that that their response surprises you or do you kind of can you kind of predict the moments that they're going to respond to the most and and uh at this point are you are are you able to uh sort of

you know, go into a class knowing, well, today is going to be the day that they say X or Y.

Right.

Yeah.

It makes the text much more uh complex and interesting to kind of parse through when you have a a bit of an anti hero at the heart of it.

So I was really struck by the experiences that you had with your father when he was one of your students and you recounted this in an Odyssey, A Father, A Son, and an Epic.

Could you tell the listeners a little bit about that experience?

Do you think you see the Odyssey through his eyes in a sense?

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