Aug 5, 2026 · 2 hr 18 min · 11 segments
The Podcast Event of the Summer is here!!! On today's episode of Loose Canon, Ella and Simon dive into The Odyssey, replete with as many tangents as Odysseus's journey. After a hefty discussion of The…
Have you read the, I doubt it.
Yes.
So I read it.
Oh, I doubt it.
No, no, no.
I was going to ask if you had read it to Emily Wilson, right? The woman who wrote the adaptation that Christopher Nolan is basing it on.
I really would
like to.
I haven't read the Emily Wilson translation.
I read it in high school, loved it.
For the past probably six months, I've been listening to the public domain audio book version, which is an old translation.
Yeah.
And so it's super
racist and everything is offensive.
It's so sick and gross.
It's misogynistic in ways I didn't even know people were doing.
It actually has the tone of how people discuss Greek society today.
They sort of brought that in.
I'm just kidding.
I don't know because I only listen to about three minutes of it at a time and then I fall asleep.
Everyone, I assume what you're alluding to, and you say when people talk about Greek society today, where there's been so much right-wing backlash against the Odyssey, where people are saying, oh, none of these people are Greek.
And, okay, sure,
yes.
But also...
Have you read the, I doubt it.
Yes.
So I read it.
Oh, I doubt it.
No, no, no.
I was going to ask if you had read it to Emily Wilson, right? The woman who wrote the adaptation that Christopher Nolan is basing it on.
I really would
like to.
I haven't read the Emily Wilson translation.
I read it in high school, loved it.
For the past probably six months, I've been listening to the public domain audio book version, which is an old translation.
Yeah.
And so it's super
racist and everything is offensive.
It's so sick and gross.
It's misogynistic in ways I didn't even know people were doing.
It actually has the tone of how people discuss Greek society today.
They sort of brought that in.
I'm just kidding.
I don't know because I only listen to about three minutes of it at a time and then I fall asleep.
Everyone, I assume what you're alluding to, and you say when people talk about Greek society today, where there's been so much right-wing backlash against the Odyssey, where people are saying, oh, none of these people are Greek.
And, okay, sure,
yes.
But also...
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