Episode 46 - Book 9 of The Odyssey, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "The archetypal story and the transition from oral to writ word.""

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Finding the Lit

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New episodes every week. Finding the lit is about rediscovering the joy of reading books with curiosity and fun combined. Each episode goes through a key work of in the canon of literary history, with literary close readings and jokes thrown along the way. Join Adrian and Nathan on Finding the Lit: taking the serious topic of literature with a grain of salt. We learn, we laugh, but most importantly: we're Finding the Lit.

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Episode 46 - Book 9 of The Odyssey, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "The archetypal story and the transition from oral to writ word.""

Finding the Lit

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8 months ago

Episode 46 - Book 9 of The Odyssey, by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation, "The archetypal story and the transition from oral to writ word.""

Join Adrian and Nathan for the first portion of our discussion of Book 9 of The Odyssey by Homer, using Alexander Popes translation. We discuss the structure of one of the original stories, and discuss how different a performed Odyssey would be from written accounts.

00:00-Introduction

04:04-Book 9 begins

06:41-Discussion of The Odyssey's structure

11:28-Odysseus sailing through storms

15:32-The Lotus Eaters

19:48-How the oral tradition of stories worked

25:11-Closing thoughts