The Odyssey and The Tales of Troy - Part 1
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Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove
45 min
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4 chapters
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Hi there. For the best Sleep Cove experience, you can listen to our Sleep Cove premium supporters feed for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus episodes at sleepcove.com slash support. Now a quick word from our sponsors that make the free version of Sleep Cove possible. With the release of the new Odyssey film coming up, I've decided to read a version of the Odyssey that also includes the Tales of Troy. I studied the Odyssey at school, but it's been many years since I read the story. In the first part, we start with Telemachus, now on the verge of becoming a man, and he still waits for Odysseus' return. A mysterious stranger brings him good news, and he decides to confront the suitors of his mother, Penelope, who want to take the kingdom off Odysseus for their own.
I'll create a playlist in the description, so you can keep up with all parts as it's released, and you should be able to subscribe to that playlist too. I hope you enjoy it, and let's begin. Part 1. How Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, was moved to go on a voyage in search of his father, and how he heard from Menelaus and Helen the tale of Troy. This is the story of Odysseus, the most renowned of all the heroes the Greek poets have told of us, of Odysseus, his wars and wanderings. And this story of Odysseus begins with his son, the youth who was called Telemachus. It was when Telemachus was a child of a month old that a messenger came from Agamemnon, the great king, bidding Odysseus betake himself to the war against Troy that the kings and princesses of Greece were about to wage.
The wise Odysseus. for seeing the disasters that would befall all that entered the wall was loth to go. And so when Agamemnon's messenger came to the island of Ithaca where he was king, Odysseus pretended to be mad, and that the messenger, Palamedes, might believe he was mad indeed. He did a thing that no man ever saw being done before. He took an ass and an ox and yoked them together to the same plow and began to plow a field. And when he had plowed a furrow, he sowed it, not with seeds that would grow, but with salt. When Palamedes saw him doing this, he was nearly persuaded that Odysseus was mad. But to test him, he took the child Telemachus and laid him down in the field in the way of the plough.
Odysseus when he came near to where the child lay, turned the plough aside, and therefore showed him that he was not a madman. Then he had to take King Agamemnon's summons, and Agamemnon's word was that Odysseus should go to Aulis, where the ships of the kings and princesses of Greece were being gathered.
What is the episode's premise and why is The Odyssey being read now?
But first, He was to go into another country to seek the hero Achilles and persuade him also to enter the war against Troy. And so Odysseus, Bade goodbye to his infant son, Telemachus, and to his young wife, Penelope, and to his father, old Laertes. And he made goodbye to his house, and his lands, and to the island of Ithaca, where he was king. He summoned a council of the chief men of Ithaca, and commanded to their care his wife and his child, and all his household. And thereafter he took his sailors and his fighting men with him, and he sailed away. The years went by, and Odysseus did not return. After ten years, the city was taken by the kings and princesses of Greece, and the thread of war was wound up.
But still, Odysseus did not return, and now minstrels came to Ithaca with a word of the deaths or the homecomings of the heroes who had fought in the war against Troy. But no minstrel brought any word of Odysseus. of his death, or of his appearance in any land known to men. Ten years more went by, and now that infant son whom he had left behind, Tanavicus, had grown up, and was a young man of strength and purpose. Chapter Two One day, as he sat sad and disconsolate in the house of his father, the youth Telemachus saw a stranger come to the outer gate. There were many in the court outside, but no one went to receive the newcomer. Then, because he would never let a stranger stand at the gate without hurrying out to welcome him, and because, too, he had hopes that someday such a one would bring him tidings of his father, Telemachus rose up from where he was sitting and went down the hall.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–4:09
2
What is the episode's premise and why is The Odyssey being read now?
4:09–18:50
3
How does the story introduce Telemachus and his situation in Ithaca?
18:50–24:06
4
Why did Odysseus pretend to be mad before leaving for Troy?
24:06–44:17
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove
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