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Hosted by Tom Lee · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 30 episodes
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Tom Lee retells the epic poem "The Odyssey" with diversions and excursions into the vast constellation of Greek myths surrounding the central story. The Odyssey describes a journey through time and against death, away from demons and towards home - if home is still there. Hear the story and the stories surrounding story while reflecting on how how humans have connected with this complicated hero for almost three thousand years.
Tom Lee hosts The Odyssey Odyssey, a arts show with 30 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail IN WHICH: We make a detour on the journey to Ithaca and travel to T'ang Dynasty China for a "Tale of the Weird" (志怪小說) that echoes Circe's penchant for transformational malice...
Send us Fan Mail IN WHICH Odysseus receives help from Hermes to overcome Circe's potent drugs, and we learn that sailors and witches make epic bedfellows.
Send us Fan Mail IN WHICH: Our much-diminished band of heroes takes time to grieve their massive losses brought about by recent events. Odysseus finds another intriguing wisp of smoke in the wilderness. Maybe this time t
Send us Fan Mail IN WHICH our intrepid band, having escaped from one man-eating giant, retreat to a tranquil bay, only to find themselves surrounded by thousands of giants with similar appetites. Poseidon's curse moves o
Send a text IN WHICH: We consider the implications of windbags, pompous and otherwise, as our hero begins to feel the full effects of the parting curse of the Cyclops.
Send a text IN WHICH: Our hero seeks hospitality in The Wrong Cave. We meet everyone's favorite mythological monster: Polyphemus the Cyclops, whose appetites are as shocking as his social skills.
Send a text IN WHICH: We hear the complete poem "The Lotos-eaters" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Send a text IN WHICH: Odysseus himself takes over the narrative and decides to begin at the beginning. He recounts the departure of his twelve ships with 600 men from the ruins of Troy to an audience that knows the endin
Send a text IN WHICH : we delve into the life and stories of Hephaestus, the god of fire, bearer of culture, architect and blacksmith to the gods. The child of dysfunctional immortals, he struggles to find a home and a f
Send a text IN WHICH: Odysseus is entertained by the rhapsode Demodacus, who is inspired to tell our hero his own story. An athletic competition gives rise to tension, which another story dispels. The entertainment conti
Send a text IN WHICH: Odysseus casts an epic gaze over the palace of King Alcinous and Queen Arete, who demonstrate their hospitality and provide our hero with hope. VISUAL FOOTNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE CAN BE SEEN HERE
Send a text IN WHICH: We explore the lineage of King Alcinous, Odysseus's host, tracing his family line back to the notorious and ill-fated race of Giants.
Send a text IN WHICH: We return from an unexpected hiatus with a "party piece" - a performance of an excerpt from Alexander Pope's 1726 verse translation of The Odyssey, Book V.
Send a text IN WHICH: Odysseus is rescued by a young princess engaged in pursuits of domestic management. Athena returns him to a state of manly elegance, and the princess promises him a speedy return to his homeland on
Send a text IN WHICH: Odysseus uses guile and deceit to attain The Bow of Heracles from Philoctetes, the man he betrayed and abandoned ten years before. Watch a video of "The Speckled Bull" - an Irish folktale descended
Send a text IN WHICH: We recount the Roman story of the Achilleid, detailing how the immortal nymph Thetis tried to protect her all-too-mortal son Achilles from the perils of the Trojan War and how "wily Odysseus" contri
Send a text IN WHICH we explore the most repeated poetic line in all of the Odyssey and learn the tragic story of Eos, goddess of the dawn, who kindled the wrath of Aphrodite and was cursed ever after to a life of unrequ
Send a text IN WHICH we encounter our hero, Odysseus, as the coddled prisoner of the sea nymph Calypso in her island hermitage. Hermes, the reluctant ambassador of Zeus, liberates the captive, who flees directly into the
Send a text IN WHICH: We delve into what may be the least understood episode of the Trojan War: that horse. How could the Trojans be so foolish as to bring that horse into their city? Homer doesn't have much to say about
Send a text IN WHICH we considered what married life is like when a husband and wife are reunited after a ten-year long war waged over the wife's infidelity. Menelaus and Helen both remember their encounters with Odysseu
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The Odyssey Odyssey is hosted by Tom Lee. The show is categorised under arts (fiction) and has published 30 episodes.
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