Professor Edith Hall

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337 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 13 Jul

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Real History Behind The Odyssey · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

But she's just left in this limbo, hoping he'll come back because there's no definitive information that he's dead.

But then, yes, he says, I've got to go off again.

And Tiresias told me I'm going to die somewhere far from the sea when I meet someone with a winnowing fan.

We don't know what any of this really means.

But it's a tragic and dark and lonely death awaits him despite this one period of joyful reunion.

Well, I have this with my husband.

My husband is a somewhere person, doesn't like traveling.

He loves being at home.

And I'm miserable if I don't have a flight booked upcoming.

I just need to know that it's coming.

And I sleep best traveling.

I'm a nomad.

I completely get it.

The idea of living and dying in the same sort of bit of suburban England forever is terrifying to me.

But we are also all afraid, and with hospitalised death these days, we are all afraid of dying in an alien place without our loved ones around us, all of us.

We all want to die in our loved one's embrace in our own house.

And most of us don't anymore.

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