ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST

ODYSSEY:  THE PODCAST


Latest Episodes

EPISODE 10 NAUSICAA
July 26, 2019

STORY 0:00 1:04:45 At the same time as Athena is in Ithaka mentoring Telemachus Odysseus washes ashore the land of the Phaeacians: badly beat up, half-starved, and totally naked. And his on

EPISODE 14 REUNION
July 18, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 1:03:05 And finally, Penelope and Odysseus (no longer in disguise) meet.  Penelope sets one final test, Odysseus passes it, and certain recognition ensues.   Following that, Homer attempts to tie up a few lose ends in his plot – and leave...

EPISODE 13 RECOGNITION AND REVENGE
July 11, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 1:36:40 Our story opens with possible “recognition”.  Penelope and a homeless beggar (Odysseus) have a long conversation, and take turns decoding a dream.  Does Penelope know that the beggar is Odysseus?

EPISODE 12 HOMECOMING
July 04, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 1:33:40 Odysseus – after twenty years away – wakes up on the shores of his own dear Ithaka.  Athena provides her boy with an intelligence briefing, a reconnoiter strategy, and, of course, a disguise.

EPISODE 11 DEMODOCUS and THE PHAECIANS
June 27, 2019

STORY   0:00 – 1:18:30 Odysseus – his identity still a secret – spends a very full day as the guest of the King Alcinous and Queen Arete.  Most of the day is spent in Odysseus doing his best to NOT reveal his identity.

EPISODE 9 TELEMACHUS, MENELAUS, and HELEN OF TROY
June 13, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 53:45 Athena sends Telemachus off on his first ever “road trip” – to Pylos and to Sparta – in the hopes that it might help the milquetoast young man to “grow a pair”.  Telemachus meets some familiar characters from Iliad:  windy old king ...

EPISODE 8 TELEMACHUS
June 06, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 53:15 At the same time as Hermes takes flight to Calypso’ island, in order to rescue Odysseus, Athena takes flight to Ithaka, in order to “rescue” 20-year old Telemachus: from his remarkable immaturity.

EPISODE 7 CALYPSO
May 30, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 54:30 The episode opens in year seven of Odysseus’ long, largely undocumented sojourn on Calypso’s island.  Odysseus is longing for home, apparently unmoved by the promise of immortality with a goddess.

EPISODE 6 SIRENS, SCYLLA, CHARYBDIS and SOME COWS
May 23, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 58:55 Odysseus listens to the Sirens.  I pause to provide a historical review of how Sirens evolved over time, following Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus then chooses between Charybdis and Scylla, and I pause to relate a seriously twisted “Scyll...

EPISODE 5 ODYSSEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD
May 16, 2019

STORY  0:00 – 53:00 Odysseus visits the underworld and has some interesting conversations with the dead.  His mom warns him about the deteriorating situation in Ithaka; Agamemnon warns him about the fidelity of wives (an Odyssey “recurring theme); and ...