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Odyssey: The Podcast is a serialized telling in contemporary language, of Homer’s Odyssey. Over twenty-three hours, master storyteller Jeff Wright delivers a fast-paced, literate, and addict...
STORY 1:14:49 listening time Odysseus – “the polytropus man” – sets sail for home. Adventures at Ismarus and in the Land of the Lotus Eaters...
STORY 1:03:45 listening time This episode includes all of the adventures – the horror, the comedy, and the strategy – inside the cyclops Pol...
STORY 46:05 listening time The Great Wanderings continue, and disaster follows disaster. First Odysseus squanders opportunity for easy homec...
STORY 55:57 listening time Odysseus’ crew arrive on Circe’s island, where they are transformed into pigs (most likely for behaving like pigs...
STORY 53:00 listening time Odysseus visits the underworld and has some interesting conversations with the dead. His mom warns him about the...
STORY 58:55 listening time Odysseus listens to the Sirens. I pause to provide a historical review of how Sirens evolved over time, following...
STORY 53:58 listening time The episode opens in year seven of Odysseus’ long, largely undocumented sojourn on Calypso’s island. Odysseus is...
STORY 54:12 listening time At the same time as Hermes takes flight to Calypso’ island, in order to rescue Odysseus, Athena takes flight to I...
STORY 49:47 listening time Athena sends Telemachus off on his first ever “road trip” – to Pylos and to Sparta – in the hopes that it might h...
STORY 1:04:45 listening time At the same time as Athena is in Ithaka – “mentoring” Telemachus – Odysseus washes ashore the land of the Phaea...
STORY 1:17:58 listening time Odysseus – his identity still a secret – spends a very full day as the guest of the King Alcinous and Queen Are...
STORY 1:33:00 listening time Odysseus – after twenty years away – wakes up on the shores of his own dear Ithaka. Athena provides her boy wit...
STORY 1:35:50 listening time Our story opens with possible “recognition”. Penelope and a homeless beggar (Odysseus) have a long conversation...
STORY 1:03:05 listening time And finally, Penelope and Odysseus (no longer in disguise) meet. Penelope sets one final test, Odysseus passes...