Jonty Claypole
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first heard Dec 2025
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And so Deodyssey liberates him.
It liberates him away from the singularity of character that has dominated his work up until
That point.
Yeah.
And his his reading at this time into the Odyssey is really telling because he's thinking really, really hard, as you say, about Homer and the Odyssey.
And he's writing this at a time when there's some fascinating new research coming to light.
So he was really taken by a book by a man called Walter Leif, published in nineteen twelve, called Troy: A Study in Homeric Geography.
And in this book,
Leif puts the text of the Iliad alongside the physical landscape of Northwest Anatolia, where Troy was believed to have been.
And he's really mapping out where Troy or the events of the Iliad were taking place on a kind of modern map of Turkey.
And this is something Joyce is really interested in.
Like if you're to take the events of the Odyssey and map it onto Dublin, if you'll take to take the Mediterranean.
Or the fantastical Mediterranean of the Odyssey with its sirens, where would he make those as places in in Dublin?
The other book he's really drawn to is a book by a French scholar called Victor Bérard from 1902 called The Phoenicians and the Odyssey.
Bérard argued that by going into old Phoenician log books from 500 BCE, you could see elements of the Odyssey represented there.
And what Bérard ends up arguing is that the Odyssey was.
Created by Phoenicians.
Now, who are the Phoenicians?
They're not the ancient Greeks.
They're people from what is now Lebanon and the coast there.
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