Wheaton College Core Book Podcast

Content Warning: mention of suicide 5:35, discussion of sexual assault 24:58-27:29 IX Integrating Epic and Faith – Dislocation, Homesickness – Weeping on the Shores of Babylon – Ethical Posture of Humility – Costly Hospitality – Stop the Violence – Why Christians Should Read the Odyssey – A Text in Common – Genesis 19:1-22 – Classics and Christian Thought – Classics and the English Poetic Tradition – Reading Together, Poems on Food Pantry Shelves – Golden Verses (Once Again) – Heavenly Book Club Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867 Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498 C.S. Lewis' Introduction to De Incarnatione (On the Incarnation) by St. Athanasius: https://credomag.com/2022/07/preface-to-on-the-incarnation-by-c-s-lewis/ Aldhelm's treatise on poetry: Epistola ad Acircium: https://bookshop.org/p/books/aldhelm-the-prose-works-michael-lapidge/11843634?ean=9781843841999 The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care edited by Anne Basting, Maureen Toweywas, and Ellie Rose: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-penelope-project-an-arts-based-odyssey-to-change-elder-care-ellie-rose/12542184?ean=9781609384135 Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/ Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us⟨=en& Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas. Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

Content Warning: death of a dog: 19:53-20:15, examination of slavery in the ancient world 20:16-23:42 VII Books 17-20 – Tension, Recognition, Condemnation – Lion Among Fawns, Revenge Reciprocity – Entertaining Gods Unawares – Telemachus Sneezes – Faithful Argos – Slavery and Arete – A Boxing Match – Athena Hardens Amphinomus's Heart – Odysseus's Scar – Odussomai and a Boarhunt – When and What Does Penelope Know? – Irony Over Psychology – A Fugitive Prophesies – Telemachus Finally Gives a Good Speech Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867 Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498 Erich Auerbach's "Odysseus' Scar" from Mimesis: https://classic.westmont.edu/~fisk/Articles/OdysseusScar.html Argos: The Story of Odysseus as Told by His Loyal Dog by R. K. Hardy: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/argos-ralph-hardy?variant=32128384630818 Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/ Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us⟨=en& Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas. Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

Content Warning: mention of suicide (7:32-7:40) V Books 11-12 – Katabasis – Why So Many Ghosts? – The List of Women – A Break in the Telling – Moving on to the Men – Agamemnon's Questionable Advice – Achilles, a Perspective on Glory – Shades and Sons – Responsibility and Lies – Scylla, a Rock and a Hard Place – Hearing the Sirens – Cattle and the Tale's End Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867 Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498 Bird Odyssey by Barbara Hamby: https://bookshop.org/p/books/bird-odyssey-barbara-hamby/9731408?ean=9780822965251 Meadowlands by Louise Gluck: https://bookshop.org/p/books/meadowlands-louise-gluck/7779500?ean=9780880015066 Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/ Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us⟨=en& Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas. Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

Content Warning: brief discussion of sexual abuse (6:18-8:22) III Books 5-8 – Visions of the Domestic Life – Since the Nymph No Longer Pleased – Structural Temptations – Fading Away, the Man Without Land – The Marriage Plot Thickens – Similes – Despair to Their Enemies, a Joy to all Their Friends – Arete – Sleep, the Order in the Text – Men at Peace: Poetry, Presents, Sports – Quarrel Between Achilles and Odysseus – Aphrodite and Ares – The Trojan Horse – Weeping as a Woman – Prophecy Against the Phaecians Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867 Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498 The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-gareth-hinds/6389599?ean=9780763642686 Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/ Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us⟨=en& Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas. Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

I First Impressions – The Proem – Odysseus Polytropos, a complicated man – Translation Choices – The Trojan War – Historical and Geographic Concerns – Sing for Our Time Too – Poetic Voice, Meta-storytelling – The Poem's Central Concerns – The Start of Something Great Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498 Eva Brann, Homeric Moments: https://bookshop.org/p/books/homeric-moments-clues-to-delight-in-reading-the-odyssey-and-the-iliad-eva-brann/8918756?ean=9780967967578 Epic: The Musical: https://www.epicthemusical.com/ Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/ Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us⟨=en& Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas. Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.