Madeline Miller

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

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

You know, we can't move the bed.

And she's like, oh, it is you, you know?

And it's this incredible moment where even then, even though there's been all this proof and all these moments that she still is, you know, she's like him.

She's testing.

She's cagey.

She's going to wait and see and watch and observe and feel it out.

And

So I think that's absolutely in the text.

And there's a great moment also where he watches her when he's in disguise talking to the suitors.

And she is sort of asking them for more presence if they're going to really, you know, woo her.

And you kind of would imagine, you might imagine that Odysseus watching this in disguise is like jealous, right?

Here she is, you know, kind of...

But instead, he's like, this is great.

She's conning them.

She's going to get stuff from them.

I love her.

And it's a fabulous moment where he looks at her.

He knows exactly what she's doing.

So I think it's in the text that she is absolutely meant to be brilliant.

But like him, I think she's a complicated figure.

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