688. The Odyssey: Return of the King (Part 2)
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How does Athena set the stage for Odysseus’ return from Calypso?
Let us now speed Hermes, the guide, the slayer of Argos, toward Ogigia Island, so that he can speedily announce your steadfast decision to the nymph of the beautiful braids, that Odysseus, whose mind stands fast, shall make his journey home. For my part, I will embark for Ithaca, there to breathe purpose into his son, that I might instill a man's courage within his heart, and to make him call an assembly of the long-haired Ithacans and tell all the suitors to go. those men who never leave off slaughtering throngs of his sheep and his lumbering twisty-horned cattle. To Sparta I shall send him, and to Sandy Pylos too, to learn whatever he can of his dear father's journey home, and to help him as well to earn a noble renown among men.
So that was Dame Edna Reveridge playing the goddess Athena. And Athena is talking to her father Zeus, king of the gods. And this is in the first of the 24 books that constitute Homer's great epic, The Odyssey. And as we were saying in our first episode... There is something very Australian about the expedition of Odysseus and his men across the Aegean, barbecuing on the beach, drinking unnecessarily, behaving badly, and basically comporting themselves like Australians on the beaches of the Dardanelles. And so we felt that Australian voices, Russell Crowe in the last episode, a cross between Kylie Minogue and Dame Edna in this one, were the most appropriate. I was imagining Kylie, I have to say. Right.
It turned into Dame Edna. If I shut my eyes, I could imagine Kylie and then I'd open my eyes and see you and it would all go. Yeah, nice. That's a lot. I mean, a lot of people's fantasy, actually. Anyway, the translation there is by Daniel Mendelsohn, who's on our bonus episode for Restless History Club members talking about The Odyssey. Of course, we're doing this series because the film by Christopher Nolan is out this week. It goes on general release on the 17th. And Tom, I know you've gone online, haven't you, to book your tickets because you don't want to miss out. Is that right? Actually, I went to the preview. Okay, that's just showing off, isn't it? It's just showing off. It's the sort of boastful behavior that you would expect of a Greek hero, I guess.
Yeah, it's Achaean behavior, and I will regret it when I end up in the underworld. This episode is brought to you by the Lloyd's 5K house deposit. And this is something that was last seen in 1996.
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So a recap to remind people where we are in the story. In the first episode, we heard how Odysseus, the wiliest, the smartest of all the Greek heroes, fought for 10 years in the Trojan War. He was the maestro behind the Trojan horse. Then he tries to get home with his men and he is blown fatally off course. And Tom, remind us of all his adventures and what happened.
So loads of mad adventures, one-eyed giants, beautiful sorceresses. He goes to the underworld, meets the ghost of his mother and various of his fallen comrades.
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