Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey through Homer’s The Odyssey

Achilles Among the Dead (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 15)

The greatest hero of the war stands stripped of glory. Fame has followed him into death — but not joy. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus’ sorrowful exchange with Agamemnon is interrupted by the ar...

2026-08-15

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Warnings from a Murdered King (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 14)

From grief comes counsel, sharp and unsparing. Survival, Agamemnon insists, depends not only on courage, but on caution at home. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus answers Agamemnon by tracing the ...

2026-08-14

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Agamemnon Tells of Treachery at the Feast (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 13)

War does not claim this king — welcome does. The deepest wounds are dealt at home. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus asks Agamemnon how death found him after Troy. The fallen king answers with bit...

2026-08-13

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Agamemnon’s Shade and the Price of Homecoming (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 12)

The night invites more truth, and Odysseus agrees to speak again. What follows is not glory, but warning. In The Odyssey, Book 11 continues as King Alcinous praises Odysseus’ wisdom and urges him ...

2026-08-12

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The Stories End, and the Gift Is Promised (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 11)

The tale reaches its limit, and night presses close. Memory gives way to judgment — not of the dead, but of the living who have listened. In The Odyssey, Book 11 concludes as Odysseus finishes nam...

2026-08-11

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Women Honored, Women Destroyed (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 10)

Some are remembered for glory, others for ruin — and some for both at once. In the underworld, honor and loss share the same shadow. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus continues to behold the spiri...

2026-08-10

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Queens, Mothers, and the Cost of Fate (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 9)

The underworld becomes a gallery of triumph and ruin. Glory and suffering stand side by side, bound by blood and choice. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus continues to question the spirits of lege...

2026-08-09

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The First Women of Old (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 8)

From grief, the past unfolds into legend. The dead speak not only of sorrow, but of origins that shaped the living world. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus begins to question the spirits of famed ...

2026-08-08

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Three Times He Reached for Her (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 7)

Even love cannot cross every boundary. In the land of the dead, closeness is promised — and denied. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus tries again and again to embrace his mother’s spirit, only to ...

2026-08-07

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News from Home, Spoken by the Dead (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 6)

The underworld yields its most painful truth: not prophecy, but home remembered through loss. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus speaks at last with the spirit of his mother, Anticleia, asking how ...

2026-08-06

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A Mother’s Voice in the Dark (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 5)

Prophecy gives way to something more piercing than fate. Among the dead, recognition comes at a terrible price. In The Odyssey, Book 11, Odysseus asks Teiresias how his mother’s spirit might know ...

2026-08-05

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Teiresias Speaks of Return and Reckoning (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 4)

At last, the dead speak with authority. Knowledge comes — but it comes weighted with warning and cost. In The Odyssey, Book 11, the shade of Teiresias drinks the sacrificial blood and reveals the ...

2026-08-04

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A Promise to the Unburied (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 3)

The dead do not come in silence. They speak with memory, regret, and unfinished need. In The Odyssey, Book 11 continues as Elpenor answers Odysseus from beyond the grave, recounting the drunken fa...

2026-08-03

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The First Shade at the Trench (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 2)

The dead answer the call. From darkness, voices rise — and one is painfully familiar. In The Odyssey, Book 11 continues as Odysseus performs the rites Circe commanded, digging a trench and pouring...

2026-08-02

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Sailing to the Edge of the World (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 11 – Part 1)

The sea carries them farther than any chart allows. Daylight fades, and the world itself seems to end. In The Odyssey, Book 11 begins as Odysseus and his crew set sail once more, guided by a favor...

2026-08-01

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Production Update: Returning August 1st!

Announcement! We will be returning our daily episodes starting August 1st, 2026. Listen to this episode for announcements and updates.

2026-07-25

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey - First Impressions

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has finally arrived, and after seeing it, I sat down for an hour to gather my thoughts while everything was still fresh. In this preview of the Patreon-exclusive bonus...

2026-07-22

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Production Update: Back Recording

We’ve got a quick programming update. Both the show and our companion series are taking a short hiatus while we get a few things in order behind the scenes. Everything is okay, we’re simply taking a ...

2026-07-13

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Production Update: Short Hiatus

We’ve got a quick programming update. Both the show and our companion series are taking a short hiatus while we get a few things in order behind the scenes. Everything is okay, we’re simply taking a ...

2026-06-30

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Elpenor’s Fall and the Bitter Departure (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 10 – Part 19)

Morning comes with motion — and with loss. Even as the way forward is revealed, death claims one more without warning. In The Odyssey, Book 10 draws toward its close as Circe prepares Odysseus for...

2026-06-29

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