Ulysses 31

Hello, welcome back to Ancient History 101, hosted by me, Alexandra Sills.

We are carrying on with Series 2 today, and this episode is for everyone who loved Nolan's Odyssey in the cinemas this summer, but who might need a crash course in how epic poetry was written.

And because everyone loved Laura Jegginton-Brown's episode on epic poetry and The Gods' last series, I knew I had to invite her back to talk about how to write an epic poem.

So in this episode, Laura is going to tell us everything we need How do you write an epic poem? What tricks should the author have up his sleeves? And what are the main themes and narratives that they all have in common? So I hope you enjoy How to Write an Epic Poem.

She's back, everyone.

my line of work, where we're teaching the basics to students.

But Herodotus, essentially the father of history, an ancient Greek historian around the 5th century BCE, he says that Hesiod, a mythographer, and Homer, an epic rhapsode, are the foundation to all civilization.

Not exactly like a holy book that must be worshipped, but a set of examples of people and things that set out how the world is, why it is like that, and a series of examples, these great men, these heroes.

I liked those kind of animations.

Ulysses 31 is another really favorite of mine.

And I kind of really liked those long form episodic ones.

Now, when I say long form, Thundercats is a hell of a long form.

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And interestingly there is that Ulysses 31 and Mysterious Cities of Gold and Pole Position are all produced by the same people, which is Jean Chapelle and Bernard Derez.

So they obviously had a successful formula.

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why that's saying my connection's unstable i don't know why that is but anyway um yeah um it's uh it's the tunes and tunes the best of the 80s cartoons isn't it exciting i'm really looking forward to this one and i've been watching all of ulysses 31 i've been watching i've got all of the episodes of the thundercats i underestimated how many there were by the way because i've Prolific is not the word when it comes to Thundercats.

I think there's 50 episodes or 60 episodes in a season.

It's crazy how many they did.

Got in touch with Ulysses and Telemachus and, of course, Nunu and Numenor, of course, and all the rest of them.

And so...

There was only 26 episodes of Ulysses 31.

I thought there was way more than that.