Mary Beard
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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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He's lost every single one of his crew.
By the time he gets back.
He is the sole survivor.
Now, is that admirable?
Or not?
Yeah.
And I think it engages people's moral judgments quite interestingly.
You when Odysseus gets back, who recognises him?
His dog.
But you know then he orders the destruction.
He he hangs up the slave girls who, while he'd been away, had uh you know, had been sleeping with the men who'd occupied his palace and kills them.
Just like that.
And he's you know, um what we know, what we're told.
Uh and this kind of fits with your your question about what is home, how do you know when you've got there?
Is we know that he's going to go away again.
He's not going to stay.
He's he's going to be a travelling man again.
Thank you for inviting me.
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