Madeline Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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And Madeline?
Yes, and I think it's incredibly exciting to read.
And I always find it a magical moment when I read an ancient text and I see a piece of myself that just, you know, speaks right through the millennia, right to me and my situation, even if I'm, you know, not understanding it 100% the way an ancient audience would have understood it, still feeling that resonance of things that humans have struggled with from time immemorial.
And knowing that the grief I might carry is resonating down through the centuries with all the other people who have resonated with that.
That's a really magical and powerful thing.
And then at the same time, to get lost in the things that are very different.
It's such an endlessly interesting and I would say generous world that Homer has created that any one of these characters...
Not just Odysseus, who stands at the center, but any one of these characters could be their own novel.
They could be their own epic.
You know, all of these characters are interesting and valuable.
And the world feels so big and inviting and open.
And it's just such a pleasure to spend time in it.
And so I love to sort of help facilitate other people to have that experience because I love it so much.
Well, the piece that really resonated with me is the psychological aspect of looking at what it means to have survived what he survived and how that would shape him.
The ancients didn't have a word for PTSD, but I feel that he clearly chose it.
And there are other ancient texts where we can see it as well.
People who have suffered through war and are still suffering.
And when he does finally come home completely alone and what it means to then face the families of all the people that he's lost and all of that is sort of in there in his portrait.
And yet here he is, this very proud person who is, you know, carrying the title now of best of the Greeks and wanting that pride, wanting that reputation, seeking it out very clearly throughout the poem, but also embracing
wanting to be with his wife and with his child and sort of fit into this family role again.
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