Discussing The Odyssey Part IV - Are We Done Yet?

About this episode

Ben and Nate discuss the fourth part of The Odyssey, reflecting on its length and pacing.

A Fourth Part?!?!? Not since season 1 have we seen such a thing! And to be real, Homer (or the collection of people known as Homer) really could have trimmed a lot of this down. Just a bit too much at the end and it's clearly running out of steam but Ben and Nate, but mostly Ben, are here to ride this until the wheels fall off and there is no more Odyssey left to speak of. Support the show Blue Sky - https://bsky.app/profile/wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social Discord - https://discord.gg/6BaNRtcP8C ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Ben, Nate

Topics covered

• The Odyssey
• Homer
• literature analysis
• storytelling
• classical literature

Keywords

• The Odyssey
• Homer
• literature
• podcast
• analysis
• classics
• storytelling

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Odyssey

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