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  • The Return — movie review

    (I’m rethinking the content of my website and it looks rather bare right now. I’ll continue with my reading blog of ancient literature, but will try to add other things. Today, I’m posting a movie…

  • The Odyssey, Book V (lines 132-220)

    – Odysseus leaves Kalypso Kalypso tells Hermes, “I will gladly give him [Odysseus] counsel, and I will conceal nothing [a play on her name, which means ‘concealer’] so that he might arrive unscathed at the…

  • The Odyssey, Book V (lines 1-130)

    – Odysseus leaves Kalypso (I’m going into more detail here with some of Powell’s notes) The narrative returns to the council of the gods on Mt. Olympus, so the action in Book 5 takes place…

  • The Odyssey, Book IV

    Telemachos in Sparta Powell summarizes Books 3 & 4, in which Telemachos rebukes the suitors for their profligate ways. They are infuriated, but he takes supplies from the palace stores and escapes by night, sailing…

  • The Odyssey, Book I

    Telemachos in Ithaca Continuing my review of ancient literature, I move now to the Odyssey. I’m reading a modern translation by Barry Powell of the “essential books,” which isn’t in verse, but is very clean…

  • The Iliad, Book XXIV-XXV

    Tues. Oct.1 The ransom of Hector’s body, and the end of Achilles’ anger. The gods intervene again, as Zeus sends Thetis to instruct her son to receive Priam, and sends Iris to persuade Priam to…

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