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Ghosts Give the Best Advice (Homer, Odyssey 11.440-456)
Hummel_podcast_Gk112_2013 Women are not to be trusted, says the ghost of Agamemnon to Odysseus in the underworld in Book 11 of the Odyssey. Penelope is an exception, even he admits, while advising...
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A Hero’s Best Friend (Odyssey 17.290-304)
McInerney_podcast_Gk112_2013 The famous scene in which Argus, Odysseus’ faithful dog, recognizes Odysseus on his return and promptly expires, is more than just pathos, argues Lucy McInerney. It is also...
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Divine License (Iliad 21.342-355)
Morisseau_podcast_Greek112_2013 Will Morriseau argues that uses the gods to impose his own will on the poem. His freedom with the facts is “divine license,” and Homer himself is the only real deity in...
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Homer’s Divine Inspiration (Odyssey 8.487-498)
Sanchez_podcast_Gk112_2013 Solai Sanchez explores the Greek idea of poetry as divinely inspired, and poets as bestowers of immortality. In Book 8 of the Odyssey Odysseus praises the poet Demodocus by...
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O Swineherd, Where Art Thou? (Odyssey 14.48-61)
Stender_podcast_Gk112_2013 Nick Stender examines the scene in the Odyssey where Odysseus, dressed as a beggar, shows up at the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus, and is received with gallant swineherd...
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Godlike Achilles, Remember Your Own Father (Iliad 24. 486-516)
In a key scene near the end of the Iliad, King Priam beseeches Achilles to release the corpse of his son Hector. Simone Weil’s famous wartime reading of the poem, “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force,”...
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You answered him feebly, horseman Patroclus (Iliad 16.843-863)
Homer’s description of the moment Patroclus dies is exquisitely poignant, argues Christina Errico, and Homer’s unusually familiar treatment of Patroclus leads the listener to form an emotional...
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The Scream of Achilles (18.217-238)
Earlier on in the epic the action unfolds in mostly naturalist terms, as C.S. Lewis emphasizes in his discussion of Homer’s style. In the later parts of the poem, elements of pure fantasy start to...
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The Arming of Patroclus (16.124-145)
Among the scenes of arming of heroes in the Iliad, the arming of Patroclus in Book 16 is unique in that pattern of aristeia that we come to expect after the arming scenes is suddenly broken, argues...
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The Battle of Ares and Athena (21.391-414)
In Book 21, as Achilles clogs the Scamander with corpses, the gods begin fight one another as well. In this scene Ares and Athena hit each other and brag about it like squabbling children, says Mickey...
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