The Odyssey by Homer with guest Dr. Emily Hauser

And Anne-Marie, before we jump into The Odyssey, can you give us kind of a brief overview of what that book is about? It's maybe an epic that people are still intimidated by this was my first read so tell us a little bit kind of the overview of what the Odyssey is about and then Emily we'll have you speak to us we've got two Emily's today Dr.

Hauser we'll have you speak to us a little bit about Homer who he was as a person and author

Yes.

So my first introduction to The Odyssey was DuckTales, the cartoon as a child.

So I feel like whether or not you've read it or not, I feel like there are these kind of these parts of the narrative that have sort of entered the public discourse, our language, like The idea of a siren, like all of these things that are kind of so I do feel like it's this important foundational narrative.

And it was really fun to revisit it.

I had read bits of it as a humanities major in college, but never read the whole thing and certainly never read Translation as Engaging, I felt as this one.

which maybe we'll talk about translations in a bit too.

So it is a Greek epic

poem, likely composed sometime between the late eighth and late seventh century

by an author named Homer.

And we're going to discuss that in a bit.

So if I say anything that needs to be corrected by an academic, please, Emily Hauser, step in.

Can I just jump in and say eighth and seventh centuries BCE, just so people know? Did I say the wrong thing? You just didn't say BC, so

we need to make sure people know it.

Thank you.

Yes.

I wrote that, but didn't say it.

So thank you.

Like I said, this is why we have an expert along.

You're like fact-checking me in real time.

I'll correct you too.

We've long said just...

Yes.

Step in.

And Anne-Marie, before we jump into The Odyssey, can you give us kind of a brief overview of what that book is about? It's maybe an epic that people are still intimidated by this was my first read so tell us a little bit kind of the overview of what the Odyssey is about and then Emily we'll have you speak to us we've got two Emily's today Dr.

Hauser we'll have you speak to us a little bit about Homer who he was as a person and author

Yes.

So my first introduction to The Odyssey was DuckTales, the cartoon as a child.

So I feel like whether or not you've read it or not, I feel like there are these kind of these parts of the narrative that have sort of entered the public discourse, our language, like The idea of a siren, like all of these things that are kind of so I do feel like it's this important foundational narrative.

And it was really fun to revisit it.

I had read bits of it as a humanities major in college, but never read the whole thing and certainly never read Translation as Engaging, I felt as this one.

which maybe we'll talk about translations in a bit too.

So it is a Greek epic

poem, likely composed sometime between the late eighth and late seventh century

by an author named Homer.

And we're going to discuss that in a bit.

So if I say anything that needs to be corrected by an academic, please, Emily Hauser, step in.

Can I just jump in and say eighth and seventh centuries BCE, just so people know? Did I say the wrong thing? You just didn't say BC, so

we need to make sure people know it.

Thank you.

Yes.

I wrote that, but didn't say it.

So thank you.

Like I said, this is why we have an expert along.

You're like fact-checking me in real time.

I'll correct you too.

We've long said just...

Yes.

Step in.