Madeline Miller

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219 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Jul

Madeline Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily · What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything. · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And of course, diehard, you know, pro-Greek, anti-Trojan.

She's been on the Greek side the whole way.

And so this is, you know, her favorite coming home is really important for her agenda.

Right.

You know, as a teacher, I love the idea that people are going to be hotly debating whether or not, you know, Odysseus should have been this way or that way.

I'm just excited.

I mean, these are all incredibly talented actors that have been gathered here.

So I just, you know, I'm excited to see what they bring, the spark that they bring to these roles.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah.

And starting with the ancients, I mean, as soon as these poems existed, they really coalesced from multiple different versions likely or different performers performing them and adapting them for audiences who were listening possibly on the fly.

I mean, they came out of oral tradition.

So there's already a flexibility to them because of that.

Then they do get written down.

But as soon as they existed, they were being told and retold and people were correcting them and writing back to them and performing.

Absolutely.

And lampooning them, right?

Part of the tradition of retelling and adaptation is that you are trying to make the story stand on its own in a new way.

And so, you know, the question is not, is it faithful in X way and Y way?

It's that does it does it sit as a whole and move you?

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