A Practical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey with Prof. Emily Anhalt
From ARTIDOTE by Vashik Armenikus
May 16, 2026 · 1h 1m
About this episode
In this episode, Vashik Armenikus interviews Professor Emily Katz Anhalt about the enduring relevance of Homer's Odyssey and its themes.
📍Join Odyssey Read-Along https://armenikus.substack.com/p/join-the-odyssey-read-along-may-july📍 Substack: https://armenikus.substack.com📍 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/armenikus If you want to start reading The Odyssey, understand Homer’s epic more deeply, or prepare for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation, this conversation is one of the best places to begin.In this episode of the Artidote Podcast, I sit down with classicist and author Professor Emily Katz Anhalt to explore why Homer’s Odyssey continues to speak across thousands of years. Between May and July this year, more than 3,000 readers on my Substack are reading The Odyssey together — book by book, week by week — and this conversation emerged from the questions that kept appearing during our read-along.Why does an oral epic from the ancient Greek world still resonate in modern life? What do Athena, Zeus, fate, hospitality, suffering, storytelling, and deception reveal about the human condition? And how did the Greeks understand free will, destiny, political authority, memory, and moral responsibility?Professor Emily Katz Anhalt explains how the Odyssey is not merely an adventure story about a man returning…
People in this episode
Host: Vashik Armenikus
Guest: Professor Emily Katz Anhalt
Topics covered
- Homer's Odyssey
- Greek mythology
- literary analysis
- human condition
- community
- leadership
Keywords
- Homer
- Odyssey
- Greek mythology
- literary analysis
- community
- self-restraint
- leadership
- suffering
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Odyssey
Places: Greece
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