Liv Reads Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy...

Odysseus' story finally begins... Liv reads Books 8 and 9 of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and Vancouver Island University. Submit questions and prompts for future Odyssey readings at ...  Afficher plus

Today we are finishing up the First War of the Diadochi and getting on with Hellenistic business. Pre-order Liv's Odyssey adaptation (!!!), The Odyssey: a Modern Retelling. Submit your question for the next Q&A via email or a voice note. Get ad-free episodes and so, so much more, ...  Afficher plus

<span style= "font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #111111; background: white;"> "It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil." A ...

Odyssey: The Podcast picks up right where Trojan War: The Podcast leaves off: with the city of Troy a smoldering ruin, and Odysseus staring out across the wine-dark sea, readying to guide his surviving 600 soldiers back home to Ithaka. The fourteen episodes of Odyssey: The Podcas ...  Afficher plus

<span style= "font-family: Palatino; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #111111; background: white;"> An ugly policeman doesn't have a lot of chances for love. Well th ...

In his poem “You Who Never Arrived,” Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we can mourn love as an unrealized possibility, and see this loss signified everywhere in the ordinary objects of the external world. In “Be Ahead of All Parting” (II.13 from his “Sonnets to Orpheus”), he seems ...  Afficher plus