Mary Beard
speaker
58 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Mary Beard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is already playing with the reader.
Yes.
Um we don't you know the hero is Odysseus.
Books and books, we don't see them.
And then it's stories within stories.
And then we discover that.
Those stories that we thought we knew, those are the stories that Odysseus himself, when we get deep into the book, was telling his hosts.
You know, that they're his words.
And uh we've got two stories running parallel.
We've got Odysseus trying to get home, and we've got his son who is a baby when he left.
Trying to learn what it is to grow up.
You never
Finish seeing.
How complicated.
This is I could
I'll take it on my desert island and I'll have it as my last book.
Yes, that's right.
And you know, he's a he's a fantastically flawed hero because there he is, he leaves
Troy?
To come back to Greece with all his men.
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