Autolycus
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Sep 14, 2026
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
I've been deceived.
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
I've entrusted my gold to an Autolycus for my host
Jim LockeVOICE_ACTOR
Nay, but do you listen.
Adrian StevensVOICE_ACTOR
Well, I wasn't aware of the disposition of my avaricious entertainer.
speaker_0NARRATOR
His name was Hermes, and if you have been long at this fire, you know that his errand tonight was, in a quiet way, a family visit.
speaker_0NARRATOR
For this quick God was the same one whose blood, generations back, ran down into the wanderer's own line, down through a sly old trickster on a mountain named Autolycus, the grandfather who gave the boy the name that meant trouble.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And this was the third time in all the long road that this god had reached down toward his own far-off mortal blood.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The first was the oldest gift of all, the quick and clever wit handed down the line through Autolycus, the family cunning that had been Hermes in them from the start.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The second was on the witch's island, where he put into the man's hand the little white flower with the black root that broke her magic.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And now, the third time and the last, he came skimming down the sky to open the door of a seven-year prison.
David WalesVOICE_ACTOR
I read The Winter's Tale with some French pupils to whom I was teaching English.
David WalesVOICE_ACTOR
I love Autolycus.
David WalesVOICE_ACTOR
C'est un peu moi, hein? Anyhow, I showed the Duke's card to Amélie." I began to understand.
David WalesVOICE_ACTOR
"That's why she called me Monseigneur?" "Naturally, and I told her that you were my English patron and would give me four thousand francs as a wedding present if I accompanied you to your agents at Montpellier, where you could draw the money.
Philip ShaveNARRATOR
Of his fine oratorical genius, Tertullian, in the seven books which he wrote against the church on behalf of Montanus, satirically says that he was considered a prophet by many of us.
Philip ShaveNARRATOR
Chapter 25 Theophilus, sixth bishop of the church of Antioch, in the reign of emperor Marcus Antonius Verus, composed a book against Marcian, which is still extant, also three volumes to Autolycus, and one against the heresy of Hermogenes, and other short and elegant treatises well fitted for the edification of the church.
Philip ShaveNARRATOR
I have read under his name commentaries on the gospel and on the proverbs of Solomon, which do not appear to me to correspond in style and language with the eloquence and expressiveness of the above works.
Philip ShaveNARRATOR
Chapter 26 Apollinarius, a bishop of Hierapolis in Asia, flourished in the reign of Marcus Antonius Verus, to whom he addressed a notable volume in behalf of the faith of the Christians.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Then after all, the just man has turned out to be a thief, and this is a lesson which I suspect you must have learnt out of Homer.
speaker_2NARRATOR
For he, speaking of Autolycus, the maternal grandfather of Odysseus, who is a favorite of his, affirms that he was excellent above all men in theft and perjury.
speaker_2NARRATOR
And so you and Homer and Simonides are agreed that justice is an art of theft, to be practiced, however, for the good of friends and for the harm of enemies.
speaker_2NARRATOR
That was what you were saying? No, certainly not that, though I do not know what I did say, but I still stand by the latter words.
David WalesNARRATOR
Nor were these the only, or even the noisiest, symptoms of commercial enterprise.
David WalesNARRATOR
Itinerant vendors of the Autolycus tribe also patrolled the streets, murdering the Queen's English like their descendants of today, as in loud, coarse voices they advertised their miscellaneous wares.
David WalesNARRATOR
There were fish wives, orange women, and chimney sweeps, broom men, hawkers of meat pies and pepper, of rushes for the floor, of mats, oatcakes, milk, and coal; and numerous Irish costermongers of the kind Face refers to in The Alchemist, who trafficked in fruit and vegetables.
David WalesNARRATOR
In addition to all these, and to complete the confusion of the streets, there were mountebanks, jugglers, and ballad singers full of strange tricks and new songs, whereby to attract attention and pick up a few odd coins.
Benedict WhalenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He meets the soul of his mother.
Benedict WhalenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Odysseus tells us, "But look, the ghost of my mother came, my mother dead and gone now, Anticleia, daughter of the great-heart Autolycus, whom I left alive when I sailed for sacred Troy.
Benedict WhalenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I broke into tears to see her here.
Benedict WhalenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But filled with pity, even throbbing with grief, I would not let her ghost approach the blood till I had questioned Teiresias myself." If you recall, that was part of Circe's instructions to Odysseus.
João CarvalhoGUEST
Então ele é esperto porque ele rodou o mundo, mas ele também vai ter que rodar esse mundo, né? Então, é, o-o poema em grego, aí a gente perde isso muito na tradução, ele já vai meio que contando um pouco de tudo o tempo inteiro, tá? Que é uma coisa que, nesse caso, infelizmente, né, não tem como a gente fazer jus a tudo aquilo que tá ali, né, no filme, né, é, com a tradução, tá? A tradução obviamente vai ficar aquém.
João CarvalhoGUEST
Não tem como, não tem como a gente chegar em, em tudo aquilo que o, o Homero no, nos dá ali, né? Além disso, a gente tem que pensar no próprio nome do Odisseu, tá? É, o poema ele abre num flashback, né, pra falar dessa origem do, do nome, né, na Odisseia, ali no canto dezenove mais ou menos, a Euricléia vai reconhecer a cicatriz e aí ela vai contar dessa ideia, né? O avô materno dele, Autólico, que é cau-caracterizado como um mestre no furto, alguém que tem um juramento ambíguo, ou seja, o Odisseu vem de uma longa linhagem de pessoas argutas, de pessoas astutas, de malandros.
João CarvalhoGUEST
O Odisseu é basicamente o cara nos-- o sambista carioca com o, o lencinho aqui no bolso, o chapeuzinho de lado.
João CarvalhoGUEST
Sacou? Ele é o malandrão e ele vem de uma longa linhagem de malandragens.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Then after all the just man has turned out to be a thief.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And this is a lesson which I suspect you must have learnt out of Homer, for he, speaking of Autolycus, the maternal grandfather of Odysseus, who is a favourite of his, affirms that He was excellent above all men in theft and perjury.
speaker_1NARRATOR
And so you and Homer and Simonides are agreed that justice is an art of theft.
speaker_1NARRATOR
To be practiced, however, for the good of friends and for the harm of enemies.
Mike MontillaHOST
And there's a second century author, Theophilus, who writes this really long I guess we call it a letter.
Mike MontillaHOST
It's like a treatise to Autolycus.
Mike MontillaHOST
And it's this interesting case study.
Mike MontillaHOST
So we're still in the second century.
Sabrina InowlockiGUEST
Yes, of course.
Sabrina InowlockiGUEST
So, Theophilus was a bishop, whatever that meant at the time of Antioch in the later second century.
Sabrina InowlockiGUEST
And his book to Autolycus, which is in fact three books to a discultivated pagan friend, is the only surviving work, although we know through him and other sources that he wrote also other things, notably a work against Martians.
Sabrina InowlockiGUEST
What's interesting is that the bibliographic setting is right there in the frame of the text, because at some point, Theophilus mocks Autolycus, and he calls him, you know, an investigator of all things who spends his nights in libraries, and then the reproach he makes is, except when Christianity is concerned.
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