Patrick Geoghegan
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1,107 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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He's an expert on the Homeric epic and his PhD was on vehicles of meaning, ships, materiality and the boundaries of the Iliad.
And his new project is on the politics of quotation in Homeric epic.
And Dr. George Gazis, who's associate professor in Greek literature and philosophy at Durham University.
He's an expert on archaic Greek epic and lyric and the works of Homer and is the author of Homer and the Politics of Hades.
Matthew, can we talk about violence and revenge in The Odyssey?
Because that features to such a significant degree, and it's probably a more violent text than people might imagine.
And even then at the end, there's the possibility that there would have been more violence and retaliation, only there seems to be a kind of a godlike intervention to kind of make sure the story can end on a somewhat peaceful note.
Matthew, you mentioned Scylla and Charybdis there earlier.
And I studied the 18th century and in political speeches in the 18th century, politicians often referenced these monsters.
If you were faced with two unpalatable alternatives, it was a reference that was often used and it was a reference that was understood.
But it's something that now, if you were to say it in the 21st century, people wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about.
Catherine, can we talk about Penelope?
She's got to be played by Anne Hathaway in the film version, and I think that's brilliant casting.
But she's such an important figure.
So tell me about Penelope having to deal with her husband being absent for 20 years, having to raise her son on her own, and then having to deal with all of these suitors who, as we've heard, are really quite a drain and really kind of a bit of a threat
to her because they're all vying to become her next husband.
George, I was reading in the book description for Homer and the Poetics of Hades, published by Oxford, that you were born a stone's throw from modern day Ithaca.
So I wonder, does that give you any, I suppose, insight?
Any additional perspectives?
You grew up close to what is modern Ithaca and where so much of this is set.
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