Professor Edith Hall
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Professor Edith Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Clytemnestra, Medea, right?
These highly powerful women, it's seen as very destructive and threatening to the patriarch.
Oh, no.
Odysseus is so proud of his wife because she's getting presents out of the suitors.
She's kept that whole shebang together.
His father is pathetic.
He's just got into a lifelong depression.
Penelope's got to hold the whole fort together and bring up the son, and she does it magnificently.
And that is why he wants to go home.
Calypso offers him immortality, and he likes to sleep with her.
We're told he likes sex with her.
She says no.
Penelope and I are like two peas in a pod.
We think the same.
He actually says this.
We are of the same mind.
And I don't care if she's going to get old and ugly and die.
She's my girl.
And I actually still cry when I read that bit.
It feels modern, but in fact, in purely anthropological terms, the structure of the modern Western family is pretty identical with that of the ancient Greek family.
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