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A weekly Great Books podcast hosted by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan, exploring the most impactful texts that have shaped Western civilization; the Greek texts are here, 108 of 151, 2 eras, 154 hours.

One voice, in order, from the Stone Age forward, and long enough to stop for a fifty-minute episode on the symposium when the story reaches one. A hundred and twelve numbered episodes so far and still running.

Discussions on the dialogues of Plato, who wrote nearly 2,400 years ago, hosted by amateur philosopher James Myers: four seasons of group discussions and a fifth with invited guests; 75 of 77 episodes are here, 132 hours.

Tristan Hughes interviews historians and archaeologists on themes from Neolithic Britain to the fall of Rome for History Hit; only the Greek episodes are included here, 140 of 766, spanning eight eras across roughly 116 hours.

The stretch most Greek histories skip: after Alexander dies in 323 BC the empire splits between his generals, and this works through the Seleucids, the Ptolemies, the Antigonids and the Greek kingdoms that reached India.

Mark Selleck works through the archaic and classical centuries in roughly forty minutes an episode, stopping to say which ancient author a claim comes from. A hundred and seven numbered episodes reach the Ionian War.

A podcast dedicated to learning Epicurean philosophy through the poet Lucretius; only the episodes on Epicurus and his Greek sources are here, 89 of 350, 1 era, 84 hours.

Earl Fontainelle explores the forgotten and rejected story of Western thought; only the ancient Greek episodes are here, 114 of 220, 1 era, 81 hours.

Hosts Dr. David Noe and Dr. Jeff Winkle in lively discussion of Greco-Roman civilization from the Minoans and Mycenaeans through the Renaissance to the present; only the Greek episodes are here, 69 of 238, 7 eras, 70 hours.

An ancient history podcast run by two Millennial women: misbehaving emperors, poison assassins, mythological mayhem, like Hardcore History meeting My Favorite Murder, with booze and laughter; only the Greek episodes are here, 56 of 363, 6 eras, 61 hours.

Professor Kozlowski lectures on subjects in Philosophy, Theology and the Humanities; only the Greek lectures are here, 40 of 306, 3 eras, 58 hours.

A channel on the New Books Network, the academic audio library where scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field; only the Greek episodes are here, 65 of 718, 7 eras, 59 hours.

A podcast on the history of Persia and the empires that ruled there, beginning with Cyrus the Great; only the Greek episodes are here, 87 of 219, 5 eras, 55 hours.

Some guys who were once set on doing philosophy for a living but thought better of it pick a short text each episode and chat about it; the Greek texts are here, 47 of 810, 2 eras, 54 hours.

The show describes itself as spanning Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Carthage and Rome alongside Greece, covering archaeology, literature and philosophy; only the Greek episodes are included here, 59 of 73, across six eras and 54 hours.

Doug Metzger moves chronologically from Sumerian cuneiform through early Islamic history at roughly two hours an episode; only the Greek episodes are included here, 29 of 128, spanning three eras across 50 hours.

Ancient Warfare Magazine's discussion format covers generals and soldiers across early civilizations, with no promise of a Greek focus; only the Greek episodes are included here, 114 of 426, spanning eight eras across roughly 48 hours.

Misha Glenny and academics host seminar spanning history, philosophy, religion, science and culture, with Mondays drawing on Melvyn Bragg's archive; only the Greek episodes are included here, 60 of 1170, across seven eras and 45 hours.

Owen and Isabella Gemmer read, recap and discuss Homer’s two epic poems, one chapter per episode, every Friday, for first time Homer readers and fans alike; 74 of 87 episodes are here, 44 hours in the age of myth.

Scholar and writer Spencer Klavan on a tour through the great works of the West; only the Greek episodes are here, 42 of 300, 3 eras, 41 hours.

Paul Bianchi sits down with his best friend and comedic writing partner Sarah Oliver to teach her everything there is to know about Greek Mythology; only the Greek episodes are here, 49 of 116, 2 eras, 42 hours.

In Greek antiquity a lesche was a spot to hang out and chat; here Brown University professor Johanna Hanink hosts conversations with fellow Hellenists about their latest work; 44 of 51 episodes are here, 6 eras, 40 hours.

Jason Weiser and Carissa Weiser retell stories from myths, legends and folklore for modern ears; only the Greek episodes are here, 58 of 540, 2 eras, 39 hours.

Andrew Schiestel explored history and mythology in the Mediterranean Basin in 188 episodes between March 2021 and January 2022; only the Greek episodes are here, 50 of 188, 7 eras, 39 hours.

A series of podcasts and seminars for active duty, reserve and veteran military members, sponsored by St. John's College, on leaders from the great books of the western canon; 53 of 83 episodes are here, 3 eras, 36 hours.

Peter Adamson takes listeners through the history of philosophy without any gaps; only the ancient Greek run is here, 96 of 507 episodes, 1 era, 36 hours.

Patrick Wyman, known for Fall of Rome, hosts Wondery's survey of how past events shaped states, language and religion; only the Greek episodes are included here, 51 of 442, spanning eight eras across 36 hours.

A.J., Graeme and Thomas discuss everything having to do with the classical world; only the Greek episodes are here, 36 of 300, 3 eras, 35 hours.

Steven presents a chronological history of the ancient Spartan peoples, from the epics of Homer to the collapse of Spartan dominance in the 4th century BCE; 38 of 39 episodes are here, 4 eras, 33 hours.

HistoryExtra brings historical conversations with leading historians, a free podcast released six times a week covering the ancient world to the modern day; only the Greek episodes are included here, 44 of 2057, spanning seven eras across 33 hours.

A podcast about myths, movies and one doctor of classics teaching history and mythology to two friends; only the Greek episodes are here, 29 of 56, 7 eras, 32 hours.

The literature, philosophy and history of the Greek and Roman world, covered sometimes irreverently but always with love; only the Greek episodes are here, 161 of 245, 2 eras, 33 hours.

A boozy dive into mythology, legends and folklore: every week the hosts pour a drink and dive into a new story from around the world; only the Greek episodes are here, 33 of 527, 2 eras, 28 hours.

Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments, from the Colosseum in Rome to the Tomb of Tutankhamun; only the Greek episodes are here, 39 of 1548, 7 eras, 27 hours.

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take listeners through history's biggest moments, from the Roman Empire to the Norman Conquest of 1066; only the Greek episodes are included here, 27 of 984, spanning five eras across 25 hours.

A unique view of mythology: best-selling author and mythologist Patrick Garner explores the Greek gods and offers rare insights into who these divine beings were and what became of them; 68 of 72 episodes are here, 6 eras, 25 hours.

A Greek gourmand travels through time to ask what food accompanied the conversations of Socrates, Plato and Pythagoras; only the Greek episodes are here, 38 of 254, 2 eras, 24 hours.

Myths from around the world with some history on the people and civilizations that told them; only the Greek episodes are here, 54 of 87, 1 era, 24 hours.

Ancient Blogger explores Greece, Rome and other cultures from antiquity, with a range of topics suitable for all levels of understanding; only the Greek episodes are here, 45 of 114, 5 eras, 24 hours.

A podcast for a non-specialist audience, drawn from courses in literature and mythology; only the Greek lectures are here, 38 of 285, 2 eras, 23 hours.

Jeff Wright serializes the Trojan War narrative episode by episode, each followed by roughly fifteen minutes of commentary in a comic, modern tone; 20 of 21 episodes are included here, confined to one era across 23 hours.

The description names only Greek myth as scope, seven words in total; the measurement carries the rest, with 43 of 44 episodes included, spanning two eras across 22 hours.

Doug Campbell, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Alma College in Michigan, explores important topics in ancient philosophy in India, China, Greece, Rome, the Near East or beyond; only the Greek episodes are here, 32 of 46, 22 hours.

A dive into all kinds of mythology, from the beginnings of Hercules to how Zeus came to be; only the Greek episodes are here, 108 of 242, 2 eras, 20 hours.

A podcast about history that might be hidden in myths, and awesome stories that really (maybe) happened; only the Greek episodes are here, 20 of 317, 4 eras, 20 hours.

Scott Emmons guides listeners from Mycenaean warrior kings through the Persian invasions and the Athens-Sparta struggle, publishing one full episode and one short one monthly; 32 of 33 episodes are included here, spanning four eras across 20 hours.

A dramatic adventure that weaves timeless Greek myths with the artistry of foremost contemporary theater-makers, hosted by Hermes, god of storytellers, travelers and thieves (Tony Award-winner André De Shields); 66 of 75 episodes are here, 2 eras, 19 hours.

Produced by The Classical Association: revision material for students of ancient history, stories inspired by classical mythology, and interviews with famous voices discussing the classical past; only the Greek episodes are here, 41 of 184, 3 eras, 17 hours.

Stories of the powerful women in Greek Mythology; Psyche and Gaia are currently available, and the story of Rheia is being worked on; all 118 chapters are here, 16 hours in the age of myth.

Author and historian Janell Rhiannon explores the myths connected to the Trojan War, from the rise of Helen and Achilles to the homecoming of Odysseus, with character studies and source discussions; 29 of 30 episodes are here, 16 hours.

A podcast about political philosophy and how it can help understand the world today; only the Greek episodes are here, 21 of 47, 1 era, 15 hours.

A call-in show where listeners ask resident historian Scott Rank anything, plus long-form interviews with experts, billed as the most comprehensive show of its kind; only the Greek episodes are here, 21 of 1120, 7 eras, 14 hours.

Anthony answers what the hype about the Iliad is and why Achilles is so mad, taking the poem book by book; all 20 episodes are here, 1 era, 14 hours.

Onoufrios, a tour guide and actor based in Athens, frames lesser-told Greek history stories with pop-culture comparisons and irony; 40 episodes are included here, out of 67 in the feed, spanning five eras across 14 hours.

A channel on military history that explores significant campaigns, battles and strategies throughout history; only the Greek episodes are here, 35 of 423, 8 eras, 12 hours.

The official Assassin's Creed history podcast: the real-life history that inspires the game's locations, characters and storylines, and the developers on how those moments are recreated; only the Greek episodes are here, 12 of 176, 4 eras, 9 hours.

Two sisters bring their love of astronomy and mythology to retelling the stories of the night sky; only the Greek myths are here, 20 of 93, 1 era, 8 hours.

Eddie brings ancient legends to life with easy-to-follow explanations of myths from around the world; only the Greek episodes are here, 24 of 105, 2 eras, 7 hours.

Mira Karakitsou meets the wildflowers, herbs and trees of the Mediterranean and the ancient Greek myths that honor them; 13 of 19 episodes are here, 1 era, 6 hours.

A weekly show covering all sorts of mythological tales and crazy fiction; only the Greek episodes are here, 10 of 64, 2 eras, 3 hours.

Lucas Livingston explores the art and culture of the Ancient Mediterranean World; only the Greek episodes are here, 15 of 70, 4 eras, 2 hours.

This miniseries dramatizes the 10-year siege of Troy and the love affair between Paris and Helen, an original take on the Greek myths that first aired on BBC One in February 2018 before Netflix streamed it internationally.

Directed by Franco Rossi assisted by Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava, this eight-episode Italian miniseries broadcast on RAI in 1968 is based on Homer's Odyssey, with Bekim Fehmiu as Odysseus and Irene Papas as Penelope.

Michael Wood writes and presents this six-part BBC documentary series from 1985, examining how far historical and archeological evidence matches Homer's account of the Trojan War in the Iliad.

Directed by Manfred Noa, this 1924 German silent drama, based on the Iliad by Homer, was released in two parts, The Rape of Helen and The Fall of Troy, at a cost that seriously damaged the finances of Bavaria Film.

Andrei Konchalovsky directed this 1997 miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey, co-produced by Hallmark Entertainment and American Zoetrope, airing in two parts on NBC from May 18, 1997, starring Armand Assante and Irene Papas.

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this 2026 adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, produced with Emma Thomas and starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, who journeys home to Ithaca after the Trojan War to reunite with Penelope.

Wolfgang Petersen directed this 2004 film starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, loosely based on Homer's Iliad and condensing the decade-long Trojan War as Achilles and the Greek army besiege Hector's Troy.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Charlotte Gregory

Charlotte Gregory discusses the reception of masculinity in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and in the Hollywood epic tradition.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Justin Jackson, Benedict Whalen

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Justin Jackson, and Dr. Benedict Whalen of Hillsdale College end the twelve-week study of the Odyssey with Books 23 and 24, unearthing more of Homer's truth.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Emily Hauser

Author Emily Hauser discusses her book on the women of Homer's epics and, through them, the women of the Bronze Age.

Part of Literature and History

As Homer's Odyssey, Books 17 through 24, reaches the violent climax of Odysseus' great adventures, the episode turns to consider Homer's worldview.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1977 film based on Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, the third in his Greek Tragedy trilogy, starring Tatiana Papamoschou as the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra with a score by Mikis Theodorakis.

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Dr. Frank Grabowski and Thomas Lackey join Dcn. Garlick to discuss Book 11 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus fills a trench with blood to summon the prophet Tiresias in the underworld.

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With Gregory McBrayer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Gregory McBrayer discuss Books 9 and 10 of the Odyssey, the first half of Odysseus' own story, covering the lotus eaters, the cyclops, and Circe.

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With David Niles

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, David Niles, Thomas Lackey, and Frank Grabowski close the Odyssey with Hermes leading the suitors' souls to Hades and Athena brokering peace in Ithaca.

Robert Wise directed this 1956 film based on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, shot in CinemaScope by Harry Stradling Sr with a score by Max Steiner, sometimes described as an overlooked Robert Wise epic.

Directed by Marino Girolami, this 1962 Italian historical drama, released in the UK as Achilles, is set in the ninth year of the Trojan War and is based primarily on Homer's Iliad, starring Gordon Mitchell as Achilles.

Directed by Mario Camerini, this 1954 fantasy adventure film based on Homer's Odyssey stars Kirk Douglas as Ulysses, Silvana Mangano in a dual role as Penelope and Circe, and Anthony Quinn as Antinous.

Uberto Pasolini directed this 2024 drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, retelling the second half of Homer's Odyssey as Odysseus returns home to Ithaca after his long absence, adapted with Edward Bond and John Collee.

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With Karl Schudt

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Karl Schudt to discuss Book 3 of the Iliad, the story of Helen and Paris, Trojan politics, and the meaning of guest-friendship.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni, this 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War focuses primarily on the Trojan hero Aeneas, with Steve Reeves as Aeneas and John Drew Barrymore as Odysseus.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski discuss the Telemachy, Books 2 through 4 of the Odyssey, tracing the coming of age story of Telemachus journeying from a fatherless, disordered Ithaca to the ordered poleis of Pylos and Sparta.

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With Grayson Quay

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan are joined by Grayson Quay to discuss Book 5 of the Iliad, where Athena tells Diomedes to fight the Trojans and to fight no immortal save Aphrodite.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1962 Greek film based on Euripides' Electra, the first in his Greek tragedy trilogy followed by The Trojan Women and Iphigenia, starring Irene Papas as Elektra and Giannis Fertis as Orestis.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Joshua Cannon

Classicist and veteran Joshua Cannon discusses the Iliad and warfare in the ancient Mediterranean, exploring how war is bad, actually.

Part of Literature and History

Homer's Iliad, covering Books 1 to 8, is called the Tyrannosaurus Rex of ancient epics, with one glittering, shiny bronze metal at the core of its 24 books.

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With Luke Heintschel

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Luke Heintschel, the Academic Headmaster of Coeur du Christ Academy, discuss Books 11 and 12 of the Odyssey, following Odysseus' katabasis into the underworld.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski discuss Books 6 through 8 of the Odyssey, covering Odysseus' time among the Phaeacians and the nature of the Phaeacians.

Part of Literature and History

The most famous part of Homer's Odyssey, Books 9 through 16, follows Odysseus through perilous adventures and begins to reveal a sense of who he is.

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With Glenn Arbery

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Glenn Arbery, and Dr. Frank Grabowski discuss Book 5 of the Odyssey and why Odysseus rejects Calypso's offer to make him a god.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan close the Iliad with Priam kissing the hands of Achilles, the man who killed his son Hector, to beg for the body's return.

Part of Literature and History

The violent and spellbinding middle books of Homer's Iliad, Books 9 through 16, leave the listener with questions about Homer's theology, in this episode of Literature and History.

Part of Literature and History

Adventure, monsters, temptresses, and a whole lot of wine-dark Aegean: Homer's Odyssey, Books 1 through 8, and an introduction to the world of the poem, in this episode of Literature and History.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1971 film starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene Papas, staying close to Edith Hamilton's translation of Euripides' play while omitting the deities, which Cacoyannis called hard to film and make realistic.

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With Evan Amato

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Evan Amato to discuss Book 5 of the Odyssey, where Zeus, at Athena's pleading, agrees that Calypso must let Odysseus leave her island.

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With David Niles

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and David Niles discuss Book 12 of the Iliad, the gods' dispute over the wall of the Achaeans, and Hector disregarding a bird-sign.

Part of Literature and History

As Homer's Iliad, Books 17 through 24, reaches its spectacular climax, the episode asks a big question: who wrote it?

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

This hundred-minute finale has Odysseus confront Priam and Menelaus confront Helen on the night Troy burns, closing a twenty-episode arc that began with the apple of discord.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open the Odyssey with Book One, discussing the invocation to the Muses, Zeus' comment on fate, and what happened to Agamemnon.

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With Charlotte Gregory

Conversations: PhD student Charlotte Gregory joins Liv to discuss Achilles and Patroclus, their relationship, and how modern Classical reception depicts their love, cousins or otherwise.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes Homer against the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean cultures, tracing Greek history through the Bronze Age Collapse and Dark Age to the beginning of the Classical era.

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With Christie Vogler, Joel P. Christensen, Joe Goodkin

Christie Vogler is joined by Homerist Joel Christensen and modern Homeric bard Joe Goodkin to discuss EPIC: The Musical and their favourite moments from it.

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With Flint Dibble

Flint Dibble explains how animal bone evidence ties climate change and failing food production to the Late Bronze Age collapse.

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With Cora Beth Fraser

Dr. Cora Beth Fraser joins Liv to examine the Minotaur, Asterion, within the Labyrinth and his relationship to autism and autistic people.

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With Julia Perroni

Conversations: returning guest Julia Perroni joins Liv for a queer theory reading of Circe in Homer's Odyssey, and the ways she works outside the many binaries.

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With Alex Priou

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Alex Priou to discuss Book 22 of the Odyssey, the Slaughter of the Suitors, where an arrow through the neck of Antinous begins the killing.

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With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos, and Dr. Frank Grabowski open a new twelve-week study of the Odyssey with Book One, calling it one of the greatest texts in the Western canon.

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With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone discuss Book 8 of the Odyssey, where a bard's song of Troy makes Odysseus weep and the bard returns to sing of Aphrodite's adultery against Hephaestus.

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Liv reads Books 8 and 9 of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, where Odysseus's story finally begins as he starts narrating his adventures.

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With Eric Cline

Eric Cline discusses what is known about the end of the Bronze Age and what did and did not contribute to its collapse.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

With a new Christopher Nolan epic in preparation, the episode walks through The Odyssey's story, the plot beats to expect and the characters to look out for, and offers opinions on what an adaptation should be.

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With Ruby Blondell

Conversations: author and scholar Ruby Blondell joins Liv to discuss Helen of Sparta, Troy, and the Silver Screen, tied to her new book Helen of Troy in Hollywood.

Directed by Terry Ingram for the Sci Fi Channel, this 2008 film finds King Odysseus, away from Ithaca for twenty years, facing the Goddess of the Underworld in the missing book of the Odyssey, the Isle of the Mists.

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With Joel P. Christensen

Liv and Michaela talk with returning guest Joel Christensen about the Iliad as an anti-war epic, questioning who gets the choice to fight and who doesn't.

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With Kacper Szymczak

Game director Kacper Szymczak discusses Minos, a game inspired by the myth of Theseus, and what counts as canon in Greek mythology.

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Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Books 16 and 17, as Telemachus returns to Ithaca and reunites with his father Odysseus.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The ancient Minoans were master seafarers, and sometime between the 1200s and the 1000s BC they abandoned their coastal villages, palaces, farmlands and trade routes; 80+ villages hidden in the Cretan mountains may have been their last refuges.

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Liv opens a new audiobook-style reading of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, kicking off what she calls a never-ending Odyssey with Books 1 and 2.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Sixty-five minutes of story open on Homer's invocation of the Muse before Achilles learns of Patroclus' death at Hector's hands, then twenty-five minutes of commentary follow the psyche's journey to the gates of Hades.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines the archaeological excavations at Hisarlik, the site most likely to be Ancient Troy, to weigh how much of Homer's Iliad reflects reality and how much is myth.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski continues the Odyssey as Odysseus' crew and the gods betray him, he finally reaches his homeland of Ithaca, and he tests his wife Penelope.

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Professor Kozlowski follows Diomedes cutting through the Trojan lines before Hector visits Troy in one of the Iliad's most famous, heartbreaking passages.

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With Maya Deane

Conversations: Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing, joins Liv to discuss her retelling of the Iliad with a trans Achilles, set in a historically Bronze Age Trojan War.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Hector returning to Troy in Book 6 of the Iliad, the duel between Glaucus and Diomedes, and Helen's lament to Prince Hector.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski embarks on his abridged journey through the Odyssey, including Helen of Troy restored to Sparta and acting especially strangely.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski works through what he calls the most boring part of the Iliad, arguing that its slow pace is intentional and deliberate.

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Liv continues her audiobook-style reading of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, moving into Book 4 as another reading of an ancient source.

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With Helen Lovatt

Conversations: Helen Lovatt, professor of Classics and author of a book on the Argonauts, joins Liv to discuss the Argonautika and its many varied versions.

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With Alex Petkas

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Dr. Alex Petkas of the Cost of Glory discuss Books 13 and 14 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus reaches Ithaca sleeping through the Phaeacian voyage.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines translations, style and structure of the Iliad, covering eccentricities of the Greek language and Homeric features like dactylic hexameter, enjambment and epic simile.

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With Emma Pauly

Classicist and dramaturg Emma Pauly joins Liv to examine a nonbinary reading of Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae and its implications for Pentheus.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski concludes his week-long analysis of Homer by examining Achilles through the last chapters of the Iliad and his reappearance in the Odyssey.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski returns to Achilles and Patroclus as Patroclus marches off to war wearing Achilles' armor in the Iliad.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski opens the Iliad with Books 1 and 2: conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon, marital squabbling between Zeus and Hera, and the long list of ships.

Directed by Alexander Korda, this 1927 American silent comedy adventure about Helen of Troy, based on the 1925 novel by John Erskine, stars María Corda as Helen, Lewis Stone as Menelaus and Ricardo Cortez as Paris.

Directed by Franco Piavoli, this 1989 Italian adventure drama, based on Homer's Odyssey, follows Odysseus' homeward journey across the Mediterranean Sea following the Trojan War, told with minimal dialogue in an imaginary Mediterranean language.

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Prof. Eric Cline on archaeology and his book 1177 BC: the late Bronze Age world, the collapse that saw great civilisations disappear from the Aegean and Near East, and the evidence that helps explain it.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski discuss Books 17 through 19 of Homer's Odyssey, where the disguised king returns to Ithaca as a beggar and has a heartbreaking reunion with his loyal dog Argos.

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With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos to discuss Book 13 of the Odyssey, where the Phaeacians bring Odysseus home to Ithaca and Poseidon punishes them for it.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan call Book 18 arguably the most philosophically dense book in the entire Iliad, discussing what the heart of Achilles teaches and how to interpret his shield.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski contextualizes Homer's Iliad through the Trojan War narrative in the Library of Apollodorus, tracing the major gods, goddesses and characters in that mythic tradition.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Books 20 and 21 of Homer's Odyssey, where the stage is set for the suitors' long-awaited slaughter.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Thomas Lackey to discuss Book 16 of the Odyssey, where Athena transforms the beggar back into Odysseus and father and son embrace and weep together.

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With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, and Eli Stone discuss Book 6 of the Odyssey, where Nausicaa washes clothes by the river and a naked Odysseus emerges to ask for her mercy.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan open the Iliad with the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus the King of Phthia, against Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski takes a bird's-eye view of the Iliad and Odyssey, tracing the trajectory of Achilles' rage and his missteps in the search for honor.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski follows Achilles as he cuts his way through the Trojan army, at least one god, and his own personal shortcomings in the Iliad.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Laura Jenkinson Brown

Liv and Laura Jenkinson Brown of Greek Myth Comix compare their separate projects retelling the Odyssey, each in distinct ways.

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With Felicia Day

Author Felicia Day discusses her graphic novel imagining the untold story of a little-known daughter of Sparta.

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Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Books 12 and 13, as Odysseus escapes Scylla and Charybdis twice before finally reaching Ithaca.

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With Rani Selvarajah

Conversations: Rani Selvarajah joins Liv to discuss her novel Savage Beasts, a retelling of Medea recast with Jason as a colonizer, set in colonial India.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Joel P. Christensen

Joel Christensen discusses Odysseus and what the long, wandering journey of the Odyssey should actually be understood to mean.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jack Drury

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Latin teacher Jack Drury discuss Books 15 and 16 of the Odyssey, covering Telemachus' journey home and the father-son reunion in the swineherd's hut.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski explores the hubris of Hector, the transformation of Achilles' rage, and the famous, ambiguous Shield of Achilles in this thematically rich part of the Iliad.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Sixty minutes of story carry Odysseus from decoding a prophecy to building the wooden horse, then twenty minutes of commentary weigh a hide-covered battering ram against an earthquake that felled Troy 6 around 1250 BCE.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski follows Odysseus' narrated adventures through cannibal cyclopes, good and bad hosts and guests, and the dead he encounters along the way.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern

Before Christopher Nolan's film, Emily and Cam break down Homer's Odyssey, questioning Odysseus's reliability as a narrator and examining Penelope's own craftiness throughout the poem.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-three minutes of story land Agamemnon's hundred-thousand-strong army on the Trojan beach, then thirty minutes of commentary contrast armored warlord heroes like Achilles with the poorly provisioned foot soldiers who made up most of that force.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

The episode explores the mythology of a genderqueer Achilles and the man who loved him, Patroclus, among the queer myths that break the binary as the ancient Greeks saw it.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Michael B. Cosmopoulos

Michael B. Cosmopoulos's The World of Homer (Cambridge UP, 2025) reconstructs the world behind the Iliad and the Odyssey using archaeology, philology, anthropology and oral tradition.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski covers Diomedes and Odysseus in the Iliad, every Greek hero getting wounded, Sarpedon on Greek social structures, and Hera seducing Zeus for her own ends.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Laura Jenkinson Brown

Liv speaks with Laura Jenkinson Brown of Greek Myth Comix about the heroes of epic, weighing the good and bad of Achilles, Odysseus and Aeneas.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone discuss Book 7 of the Odyssey, where Queen Arete is the first to question Odysseus about his name and homeland and King Alcinous offers his daughter Nausicaa in marriage.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 9 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus finally names himself and tells of the Lotus-eaters and the cyclops who devours his men.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski walks through the preparations and duel of the Iliad's Books 3-4, stressing chaos in war and the Greek view of fate, justice and the gods.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Emily Edwards

Liv speaks with Emily Edwards of F***bois of Literature to break down the horrors committed by Theseus in the most casual, ranty style, declaring him the absolute worst.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Kim Shelton

Liv is joined by Kim Shelton to dive deeper into the real world of Bronze Age Mycenae and what has been learned from what they left behind.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Alexia Burrows Charalambidou

Conversations: Alexia Burrows Charalambidou discusses the kalon kakon, the beautiful evil ascribed to mythological women including Pandora, Helen, Medea, and Circe.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-seven minutes of story in which temptation plays the lead, as Agamemnon tempts Achilles, Hera tempts Zeus and Patroclus tempts Deadly Destiny, then twenty minutes of commentary on whether Achilles and Patroclus were lovers.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Kyle Washut

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Kyle Washut, President of Wyoming Catholic College, to discuss the Odyssey as a guide for rebuilding culture and the influence of John Senior on education.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Meagan Cleveland

Conversations: debut author Meagan Cleveland joins Liv to discuss Thebes and her YA novel Riddles of the Sphinx, about Oedipus' underrated daughter and sister, Ismene.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Maya Deane

Debut author Maya Deane strips away the lenses of the Victorian era and Classical Greece to reveal an Illiad about transgender Achilles and found family in a Bronze Age world.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Patroclus begging Achilles to let him fight in his armor in Book 16, and whether Patroclus deserved the fate that follows.

Part of Ad Navseam

Christopher Nolan's screen adaptation gives a flattened, unimaginative Odysseus, a dull Calypso and a merely regal Penelope, and the movie would have been pretty much the same without the gods.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Julie Levy

Independent scholar Julie Levy joins Liv to discuss asexuality in Greek myth through Atalanta and Hippolytus, with hints of Artemis, Athena and Hestia.

Part of Greeced Lightning

In the series premiere, Sara Hales-Brittain teaches Luke and Sam the legend of the Trojan War, the epic cycle, and Paris's past, weighing the film Troy against the Iliad.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Part two of the New Year Q&A: Liv answers questions on studying the ancient Mediterranean, on Odysseus and Theseus, and on finding good translations of Greek texts.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Ioanna Papadopoulou

Conversations: author Ioanna Papadopoulou joins Liv to discuss Greece in myth retellings, the feminism of Demeter's rage, and her novel Winter Harvest.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-six minutes of story on Athena imbuing the Greek warlord Diomedes with godlike powers of combat, then seventeen minutes of commentary on whether war can be both terrible and glorious in Homer's Iliad.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-nine minutes of story follow Priam's scheme to have Achilles killed, then fifteen minutes of commentary cite Barry Strauss's 2006 book The Trojan War: A New History to argue a poisoned heel wound could really have been fatal.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam trace Homer's Odyssey through the loose adaptation O Brother, Where Art Thou?, covering tricksy heroes, the Underworld, and Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey and Edith Hamilton's Mythology.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With CW Marshall

Conversations: CW Marshall, who has written the book on Euripides' Helen, joins Liv to discuss its background and context, and Euripides' fragmentary play Andromeda.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty minutes of story cover a dispute over honour that leads to a leadership shift in the Greek army, then twenty minutes of commentary retell how Paris's abandoned wife Oenone refuses to heal the wound that kills him.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

With Jerolyn Morrison

Food archaeologist Jerolyn Morrison has excavated Minoan sites on Crete for almost three decades, in a rerun with bonus ancient recipes and the myths of Labyrinth, Minotaur and Talos.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam revisit Homer's Odyssey through the film Ulysses, exploring its supporting characters, Polyphemus wooing Galatea, ancient fanfiction, and more Kirk Douglas on screen.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Book 22 of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, an entire book that amounts to a massacre after Odysseus finally comes home.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

A queen's terrifying nightmare, priests who discern what it means and a king faced with a soul-wrenching dilemma, then sixteen minutes of commentary on the role of Fate in the Trojan War epic.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty minutes of story on the griefs of Achilles and King Priam until Zeus and Deadly Destiny unite them under one tent, then nineteen minutes of commentary on why Homer ends the Iliad with the funeral of Hector.

Part of Ad Navseam

Neal Bierling's monograph follows Philistine history from the Judges through David, Solomon and Hezekiah to Nebuchadnezzar's invasion, while the exact relationship between Samson and Hercules gets testy.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski concludes the Iliad with the Patroclus Memorial Olympics and the restoration of Hector's body to his family.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues her audiobook-style reading of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, moving through Books 6 and 7 as another reading of an ancient source.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This bonus episode is Liv's unstructured reaction to Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film and Emily Wilson's review of it for the LRB.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic unravel the story of Homer's Odyssey, asking what historical events it may be based on and where Odysseus, the epic's hero, might have faced his trials in real life.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Adam Cooper

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Adam Cooper to discuss Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors in Book 22, where an arrow through the neck of Antinous begins the slaughter in the hall.

Part of Ad Navseam

With Margalit Fox

Margalit Fox's book on the decoding of Linear B, found on Crete by Arthur Evans in 1900 and solved by Michael Ventris in 1952, credits Alice Kober's overlooked work.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv finishes reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the war's final horrors and the Greeks' troubled journey home.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy, translated by AS Way: the epic picks up where the Iliad left off, with Hector dead and the Amazons, led by Penthesilea, aiding Troy.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the funeral games the Greeks held for Achilles, organized by Thetis.

Part of The Ancients

With Emily Hauser

Christopher Nolan's film Odyssey brings Homer's epic back to life, and Tristan Hughes and Dr Emily Hauser unpack every storm and monster to challenge what Nolan keeps, what he changes, and why Odysseus still captivates audiences after 2,500 years.

Part of Ad Navseam

With Joe Goodkin

Joe Goodkin, a Classics major from the University of Wisconsin turned Chicago musician, performs his own sung interpretations of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad on the show.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, where the Trojans gain a new champion in Eurypylus, grandson of Heracles.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Fifty-eight minutes of story on Hector's audacious proposal to Agamemnon, a deal to end the war with just one man dead, then twelve minutes of commentary on the Olympian gods and how storytellers deal with them.

Part of The Ancients

With Eric Cline

Was the siege of Troy a myth, a memory of a real Bronze Age conflict, or something in between? Tristan Hughes and Eric Cline explore what archaeology and ancient texts reveal about Helen, Paris and the fall of Troy.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Adam Conque

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes fellow Catholic deacon Adam Conque to discuss Penelope's test of the bow in Book 21, which Telemachus, Leodes and Eurymachus each fail before Odysseus the beggar strings it with ease.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Alec Bianco

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Alec Bianco to discuss Book 14 of the Odyssey, where the disguised Odysseus tests the hospitality of his loyal swineherd, Eumaeus.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Menelaus defending the body of Patroclus in Book 17, asking whether human agency can affect fate and what Homer means by Hector's dark heart.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

Dan Snow narrates his own epic retelling of the Odyssey, following Odysseus on his 10-year journey home to Ithaca, from the Trojan War in Turkey to Cyclops' cave.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Kyle Lewis Jordan

Liv speaks with Kyle Lewis Jordan about the complexities of Hephaestus in relation to his impairment and broader scholarship on disability in the ancient world.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, covering the Trojan Horse stratagem and its disastrous outcome for Sinon and Laocoon.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Book 10 of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, welcoming listeners to Aiaia for a chapter of winds, giants, and witches.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv closes her audiobook-style reading of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's translation, with dramatic reunions of the living and the dead, more unnecessary lies, and a tidy final bow in Books 23 and 24.

Part of The Ancients

With Emily Hauser

When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca his homecoming turns into a ruthless reckoning; Tristan Hughes and Dr Emily Hauser dive into the shocking climax of Homer's Odyssey, asking what the massacre reveals about power, justice and ancient heroism.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Emily Wilson

Homer's Odyssey continues with translator Emily Wilson, examining the oikos or estate built on violence, its link to xenia or hospitality that forges military alliances, plus status distinctions and the role of the gods.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 12 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus survives the Sirens and Scylla only to lose his last ship after his men eat the sun god's cattle.

Part of Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Open Yale Courses)

Kagan traces Greek civilization from small farming settlements into Bronze Age cities of power on Minoan Crete and in Mycenaean Greece, linked to the monarchies of the Near East, ending in collapse.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Book 3 of the Odyssey, where old King Nestor from the Iliad helps Telemachus and recalls the Achaeans' wrath from Athena.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan take a slow read of Book 2 of the Iliad, the great gathering of armies, where Odysseus says the rage of kings is strong and their honor comes from Zeus.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus throws off his disguise and wages war on the suitors who tore up his house, going almost too far until his son pulls him back from the brink.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus meets the shadows of the dead in Book 11 of the Odyssey, forcing him and Homer to confront the possibility that life ends in nothing but worm food.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Vanessa Stovall

Liv speaks with Vanessa Stovall about depictions of hair across myth and tragedy of the Classical world, plus a healthy dose of why Apollo isn't all that.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Jennifer Saint

Conversations: author Jennifer Saint discusses her novel Elektra, following the stories of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra, and the curse on the house of Atreus.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson's Odyssey (Norton, 2017) is the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman, in iambic pentameter and matching the line count of the Greek original.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jared Zimmerer

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Jared Zimmerer to discuss Book 17 of the Odyssey, where the dog Argo recognizes his master and then dies, and Antinous hurls a stool at the beggar.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Patrick Deneen, Chad Pecknold, Richard Meloche

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Patrick Deneen, Dr. Chad Pecknold, and Dr. Richard Meloche for an introduction to Homer's Odyssey before the podcast begins the poem.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss the embassy to Achilles in Book 9 of the Iliad, the role of Phoenix, and the bond between Achilles and Patroclus.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus reaches Ithaca but still has one journey left, learning with the help of his nursemaid Eurycleia that war shaped him without erasing who he was before he left home.

Part of Young Heretics

The Odyssey opens with an empty space where Odysseus should be, and the story sets out to answer who he is, beginning with the moment Odysseus reveals his true identity to his hosts the Phaeacians.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Sophia Kouidou-Giles

Conversations: Greek-American author Sophia Kouidou-Giles joins Liv to discuss giving Circe the agency she deserves, Skylla, Greece, and her novel An Unexpected Ally.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic reach the conclusion of Homer's Odyssey, tracing the second half of Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca and asking what the epic's account of the Olympian gods indicates about Ancient Greek religion.

Part of Ad Navseam

Bierling's 1992 monograph links the Mycenaeans of Atreus and Agamemnon to the Philistines, with Egyptian steles, Apollo Smintheus and a startling similarity between Iliad I and I Samuel.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara and Sam revisit the Trojan War through the 2018 series Troy: Fall of a City, weighing its chariots, birth plans, retelling of Helen, and distracting bowl cuts.

Part of Young Heretics

The Odyssey picks up where the Iliad ends, tracing soldiers returning to society, and begins Odysseus' long journey home with his son Telemachus growing to manhood without his father around.

Part of Young Heretics

Achilles' murderous rage in the Iliad only makes sense inside an honor culture that seeks justice in a universe offering no guarantees, beyond any modern read of toxic masculinity.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as the wounded Paris turns to the wife he abandoned for Helen to save him.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-nine minutes of story track Odysseus hunting for Achilles on Skyros, then fifteen minutes of commentary count twenty-seven operas built on that same episode during one especially fashionable century.

Part of The Ancients

With Emily Hauser

Tristan Hughes and classicist Dr Emily Hauser open a new series on Homer's Odyssey, tracing Odysseus's journey from the ruins of Troy through Calypso's island, the Phaeacians, Circe and the Cyclops, and asking what kind of hero he is.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Thomas Lackey to discuss Book 14 of the Iliad, where Love and Sleep conquer Zeus in what Adam calls one of the funniest books so far.

Part of Ad Navseam

Heinrich Schliemann, the German tycoon who helped discover Troy and Mycenae, gets asked here whether he was a legitimate archaeologist, a mad genius or a grave robber.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Natalie Haynes

Liv speaks with author and classicist Natalie Haynes about the women of the Trojan War and Pandora; her latest books are A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar.

Part of Ad Navseam

Argonautica Book 3 opens with Jason ready to win the golden fleece, while Athena, Hera and Aphrodite set out to work on Medea, daughter of King Aeetes, with side glances at the Odyssey and Ovid.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Thirty-seven minutes of story carry Helen from Sparta to Troy, then twenty-six minutes of commentary weigh five competing explanations for her choice, from femme fatale to pawn of the gods.

Part of The Ancients

With Nico Momigliano

Minoan Crete has kept people captivated for millennia, appearing in countless modern cultural practices to this day; Tristan travels to Oxford to talk to Professor Nico Momigliano about the lives, civilisation and influence of the Minoan past.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 6 of the Iliad covers the brutality of war and argues over Hector: are his actions heroic or cowardly, and should he stay with Andromache or go down fighting.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Rachel Greb

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Rachel Greb to discuss Book 23 of the Odyssey, where Penelope tests her husband with the secret of their marriage bed rooted in an olive tree.

Part of Young Heretics

Telemachus hears from Menelaus about his own fraught journey home, including an encounter with Proteus that led to the first news of Odysseus in years and brings his son hope.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as Neoptolemus helps the Greeks defeat Eurypylus before Troy's final stand.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Book 11, as Odysseus journeys to the realm of the dead.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Book 19, as Odysseus and Penelope finally speak together before the story's climax.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Jennifer Saint

Conversations: bestselling author Jennifer Saint, now a four time guest, joins Liv to discuss the heroine Atalanta and reimagining her in Saint's new novel of the same name.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Book 3 of Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy: after the deaths of Penthesilea, Memnon, and the Greek Antilochus, Apollo takes his anger out on Achilles.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert, author of The Odyssey: A Modern Retelling, discusses what can be believed about the Odyssey, including Odysseus as a problematic narrator and self-admitted liar.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-three minutes of story send Palamedes to track down the vanished Odysseus, then seventeen minutes of commentary turn to Greek raiding ships and the Trojans who built no navy of their own.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-six minutes of story cover a priest of Apollo whose request Agamemnon refuses, then sixteen minutes of commentary set out the unitarian and separatist arguments over whether one Homer composed the Iliad around 700 BCE.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Homeric scholar Olga Levaniouk on the intelligence and agency of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey, which is seldom appreciated, and the old debate over whether she realizes who the disguised beggar is.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

The team discusses magazine issue X.3, Warfare in the Age of Homer, on how the Trojan War stood to Greeks and Romans as the beginning of all warfare and the standard for expected male behaviour.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Kate Compton

Kate Compton joins the hosts in wrapping up the war that will never end, an episode featuring Memnon, Penthesilea and a big wooden horse the Trojans should have seen coming.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

With Helena Greer

Author Helena Greer, who holds a degree in writing and mythology, joins the hosts to discuss Clytemnestra, whom she calls the Murder Queen, alongside blood curses and sapphic battle axes.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick explores Book 10 of the Odyssey alone, where King Aeolus gives Odysseus a bag of winds and the goddess Circe turns his men into pigs.

Part of Ad Navseam

Athena, disguised as Mentor, wants the punishment of the suitors and disloyal staff, raising hard questions about the deaths of Leodes and the executed maids.

Part of Myths and Legends

The Greeks finally find their way into Troy, taking plenty of ridiculous side quests along the way, including a cameo from one of Greek myth's most famous heroes.

Part of Young Heretics

Three women, Calypso, Nausicaa and Athena, walk beside Odysseus on his way back to Ithaca, each loving him without holding on as he recovers who he is after war and wandering.

Part of Young Heretics

The best scene in the Iliad shows Hector and Andromache on the wall, mourning honestly with those who suffer defeat and revealing what the poem says about polytheism among the Trojans.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Kyle Lewis Jordan

The second conversation with Kyle Lewis Jordan turns to Hephaestus's relationship with Athena and Aphrodite and to modern reception of the god and disability today.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This episode looks at how later ancient sources retroactively expanded and revised Odysseus's story beyond what the Odyssey itself tells.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Books 20 and 21, as Odysseus and Penelope's household moves toward its climax.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Book 14, as Odysseus returns to Ithaca and begins telling more lies.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern

Euripides staged Trojan Women in Athens months after Athenians captured Melos, and Hecuba, Cassandra and Andromache carry the play's depiction of the fall of Troy.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-five minutes of story confront Agamemnon with the sacrifice of his daughter at Aulis, then sixteen minutes of commentary compare how Aeschylus in 458 BCE and Euripides in 405 BCE reshaped the same sacrifice into their own plays.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Daniel Mendelsohn

Daniel Mendelsohn, Editor-at-large at the New York Review of Books, discusses his new translation of Homer's Odyssey for the University of Chicago Press, following his earlier translation of the poetry of Constantine Cavafy.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Ten years into the Trojan War below the walls of Troy, Achilles' feud with Agamemnon over a woman called Briseis rose to a fever pitch in a toxic wasteland.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Mary Pat Donoghue

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Mary Pat Donoghue to discuss Book 19 of the Odyssey, where the beggar tells Penelope her husband is returning and the maid Eurycleia recognizes his scar.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Achilles driving half the Trojan army back toward Troy over the plains and the other half into the Xanthus river and his fight with the river god in Book 21.

Part of Ad Navseam

Penelope wins her battle of wits over their bed as the suitors are sent to Hades, where Agamemnon jeers, while Odysseus tests his old father with one more false identity.

Part of Ad Navseam

In the underworld Odysseus meets Epicaste, Antiope and Alcmene, then hears Agamemnon's grim homecoming tale, finds a silent Ajax Telamon, and sees Sisyphus, the original rock-n-roller, eternally doomed.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. opens the world of the Odyssey here, walking through some of its important scenes while exploring the story.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sam and Sara examine Epic: The Musical, a Gen Z Odyssey retelling, discussing amoral heroes and the best bit of the Odyssey that this adaptation left out.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus must choose between Scylla and Charybdis after a turning point among the dead, facing what he calls the saddest and most pitiable horror of all his suffering journeys at sea.

Part of Young Heretics

In Book 9 of the Odyssey, Homer swings from a peaceful vision of men living off their own vineyards and fig trees to the horror of the Cyclops eating people alive.

Part of Young Heretics

From Book 16 to Book 24, the Iliad closes with a study of Achilles, his companion Patroclus, and the rage, war and grief that leave the stage set for the Odyssey.

Part of Young Heretics

With a Ralph Fiennes Odysseus movie announced, the show finally returns to Homer, beginning today the whole story of the Homeric epics that it wanted to tell since episode one.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads from Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, in which the Greeks honor the dead Achilles with funeral games organized by Thetis.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

Achilles spent several years of his life passing as a girl, a stretch this episode explores alongside his relationships with his mother Thetis and a girl named Deidameia.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jennifer Frey

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Jennifer Frey to discuss Book 20 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus prays to Zeus for an omen and the prophet Theoclymenus sees the house drenched in blood.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

The Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid share one continuous story that ancient Greeks took as common knowledge; this episode supplies that background so the Iliad's plunge into the middle makes sense.

Part of Young Heretics

Odysseus gets re-acquainted with his furry friend and his long-lost son in a moving series of reunion scenes, learning that he also left much of himself at home and that his worst failures are not the last word.

Part of Young Heretics

With Helen abducted and the Achaean forces gathering for Troy, the episode sifts the myths, including the tale of the Achilles heel, from what Homer's Iliad actually contains about Achilles.

This 2011 BBC docudrama portrays events around the volcanic eruption that destroyed Thera, an incident portrayed as having inspired the parable of Atlantis, narrated by Tom Conti with Stephanie Leonidas and Reece Ritchie as individuals of the Bronze Age.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Amy Pistone

Conversations: Amy Pistone joins Liv to discuss the reception of Sophocles' Antigone, the varied ways the play has been used to depict modern stories of resistance.

Part of Instant Classics

With Jonty Claypole

Jonty Claypole joins Mary and Charlotte to trace how George Chapman's 1590s translations of Homer influenced Shakespeare, and how the Odyssey later shaped novels by Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Classicist Mary Bachvarova, author of From Hittite to Homer, discusses whether Homer was influenced by civilizations east of Greece, and the potential direct and indirect influences of the Hittites on the Greek epic tradition.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Tony Gonzalez, Sam Johnides

Guests Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides bookend the episode with a preview of their musical about Orpheus and Eurydice, Happily Ever Under, while tales of Achilles, Odysseus, Helen and Patroclus fill out the main discussion.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Ashlee Cowles, Danielle Stinsen

AD Rhine, pen name of authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinsen, tells the Trojan War saga through women who lived through it on both sides, and this conversation covers the martial women of the Bronze Age.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Anwen Kya Hayward

Liv speaks with Anwen Kya Hayward, author of the Medusa novella Here, the World Entire, about the intricacies and nuances of Medea, with Jason and Theseus dragged into the conversation too.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Paul Cartledge

Professor Paul Cartledge tells Ellie Cawthorne whether the Trojan War of Achilles, Helen and the wooden horse really happened, discussing archaeological remains believed to be Troy and why Homer's Iliad may not be the most reliable historical source.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

If the listener thought Circe and Odysseus got steamy, Calypso raises the bar further, and the hosts also investigate what has been happening with Odysseus's family, Penelope and Telemachus.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

Hector is on hand to discuss Hector, marking the first time the episode's guest and its subject are one and the same as the show tackles the Illiad.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a MacArthur Fellow, discusses translating two passages of the Iliad, Book 6 lines 482 to 502 and Book 22 lines 199 to 204.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

At the beach at Aulis, where the Greek kings gathered at the start of the Trojan War, Achilles clashed with Agamemnon, and a girl named Iphigenia met her fate.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

With Lexie Henning

Scholar and podcaster Lexie Henning joins the hosts to discuss Homer and The Iliad, from traveling bards and days-long performances to a 10 year war.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Professor Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne returns to discuss Thera, the Bronze Age name for Santorini, and what civilization looked like there at the time.

Part of Young Heretics

On the island of Aeaea, Odysseus must share the bed of the witch Circe, a trial that helps him find his way back into civilization after losing comrades to war.

Part of Young Heretics

The Iliad opens with the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon, a drama carrying the seeds of Greek culture from the terror of hubris to the achievement of city-states acting in coalition.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Aimee Hinds

Liv speaks with Aimee Hinds about the intricacies of Clytemnestra's story and how storytellers and reception over millennia have shaped understanding of this powerful Spartan woman.

Part of The Greek Myth Files

Nicole Sanfilippo's script follows Achilles' famous rage after being insulted across the Iliad's span of just a couple of months in the war's tenth year, ending in his redemption after losing honor and his friend.

Part of Tides of History

With Sarah Murray

The episode notes it is often said that trade was central to the interconnected world of the late Bronze Age, and features an expert on the economy of Mycenaean Greece and how and why it fell apart.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

The final Odyssey episode covers Book 24, asking why Athena intervenes so much and what the Odyssey is trying to say about justice, closing out the series.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 15 of the Odyssey, where Athena sends Telemachus home from Sparta and the swineherd reveals he was once a kidnapped prince.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 8 of the Iliad, the turning tide of battle, whether the Achaeans truly need Achilles, and the relationship between Athena and Zeus.

Part of Young Heretics

The Judgment of Paris, the story that started it all in the Homeric universe, is revisited to ask whether Paris could have navigated the situation any better than he did.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Jennifer Saint

Phaedra, reduced to a stereotype in Euripides' Hippolytus, gets a fuller telling in this episode, alongside a conversation with author Jennifer Saint about her new book Ariadne.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv and Michaela debate Helen and Clytemnestra, weighing everything the two women are recorded doing across the ancient sources.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Book 15, as Telemachus prepares to return home from his travels with divine help.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte return a week after Christopher Nolan's premiere to fault the film for cutting Nausicaa and the Gods, and for making Odysseus reluctant to lie, unlike Homer's Odysseus.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 19 of the Odyssey brings Odysseus and Penelope's first conversation, short of a reunion, asking whether she already recognizes him and why she stays silent if so.

Part of Combat and Classics Podcast

With Scott Hambrick

Brian is joined by guest Scott Hambrick, founder of Online Great Books, to discuss the questions about war raised in Book 6 of Homer's Iliad, and Brian will teach a seminar through Scott's website starting in January.

Part of Ad Navseam

Odysseus survives Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens and his men's fatal hankering for a decent steak on the island of Helios, before Athena sends him to Eumaeus's hut on Ithaca.

Part of Mysteries of Mythology

Homer's Odyssey, one of the most famous epics ever written, through the adventures of Odysseus on his epic journey home after the Trojan War, its plot, characters, themes and historical context, ahead of the 2026 movie adaptation.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues her audiobook-style reading of Homer's Odyssey in Ian Johnston's modern translation, moving into Book 3 as another reading of an ancient source.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte trace Helen of Troy through Christopher Marlowe's line about a face that launched a thousand ships, Shakespeare's reply, and modern versions by Margaret Atwood, Pat Barker and Natalia Haynes.

Part of The Ancients

With Steve Kershaw

More than 3,500 years ago a massive volcanic eruption devastated Thera, modern Santorini, engulfing the Bronze Age world in ash; Tristan Hughes and Dr Steve Kershaw ask whether the disaster sparked the decline of the Minoans and inspired Plato's Atlantis.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

On the heels of one host seeing Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, the other host tells another tale of bloody revenge, the gruesome end of the Odyssey.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Chris Lewis

The host regales the co-host and guest Chris Lewis with tales of beach battles, a tricksy Odysseus, more "wisdom" from the seer Calchas, and Patroclus and Achilles's disputed relationship, with the big wooden horse still to come.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 10 of the Iliad covers nighttime espionage, as the Greeks send Diomedes and Odysseus while the Trojans send Dolon; it is the first book that shows what kind of man Odysseus is in the war.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Book 2 of the Odyssey, where Telemachus, inspired by Athena, addresses the assembly of Ithaca and condemns the suitors.

Part of Ad Navseam

Odysseus clocks the mouthy Irus in a bum fight, then Penelope overshares with the stranger, Eurykleia shrieks at a telling scar, and a geesey dream puts his wife in the driver's seat.

Part of Ad Navseam

Telemachus finally reunites with Odysseus at the hut of the swineherd Eumaeus, complete with bird omens and Odysseus dodging stool legs while disguised as a beggar.

Directed by Warwick Gilbert and Geoff Collins, this 1987 Australian animated adventure film follows Odysseus as he attempts to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, encountering mythical creatures and divine obstacles.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book XVI of the Iliad, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, follows Patroclus entering battle wearing Achilles's own armour, a bonus, non-narrative reading of Homer.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Danielle LaRose

Actor and playwright Danielle LaRose discusses her new play The Amazonomachy, retelling the myths of the Amazons, in this conversation with Liv.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Homer's Odyssey, Book 18, as the disguised Odysseus returns to a palace in crisis.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues Quintus Smyrnaeus' The Fall of Troy, the only surviving source retelling the end of the Trojan War, as Troy reels after the Amazon Penthesilea's death.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Christie Vogler

Christie Vogler takes over the podcast to guide Liv through EPIC: The Musical, setting the stage for next week's full takeover episode.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Thirty-eight minutes of story on a miraculous child who survives an angry demi-god, an icy immersion in a magic river and a deadly snake, then sixteen minutes of commentary on the popularity of Achilles stories.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Noelle Ann Mabry

Actress Noelle Ann Mabry joins the hosts as they dive into the Homeric tale that made Odysseus a household name, an episode covering lotus drugs, angry giants and saucy cyclopes.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Emily Hauser

Emily Hauser, Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter, discusses the real Bronze Age women remembered in Homeric epic, the subject of her book Penelope's Bones, and the popularity of feminist retellings of Greek myth.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan cover the death of Hector, who waits alone outside the walls of Troy as Achilles declares there are no binding oaths between men and lions.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers book 16 of the Iliad: the full character arc of Patroclus, Achilles letting him fight despite his inner turmoil, Sarpedon's buildup, the peculiar death of Patroclus and why Euphorbus is afforded a piece of the glory.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Euripides is credited here as the source of all of Medea's lasting fame, paired with an original song about her written and performed by listener Alison Rush.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

Richard Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus at Cambridge, and Rebecca Laemmle discuss their new commentary on Odyssey Book 11 in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

The fifty-three-minute opener has an uninvited guest crash a wedding hosted by Zeus and hand over an unwelcome gift, setting the whole Trojan War epic in motion.

Part of The Ancients

With Edith Hall

Featuring Achilles, Hector and Agamemnon, the Iliad captures the drama of the final days of the Trojan War; Tristan Hughes and Professor Edith Hall explore its portrayal of fate and prophecy, and the apocalyptic tone of its language.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

The host drags his co-host back into the Trojan War for a rundown of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, described in the episode as the original fanfiction.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Sarah Martellaro

The episode continues topics of bloody revenge as the host tells the tale and prehistory of Elektra to a duo of Sarahs, joined by guest Sarah Martellaro alongside regular host Sarah Oliver.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 3 of the Iliad stages the duel between Menelaus and Paris that nearly ended the Trojan War, weighing glory and honor on the battlefield.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 9 of the Odyssey revisits the Cyclops in more depth than expected, asking who Polyphemus is and why Odysseus is telling this story.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Jennifer Saint

Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne, discusses myth, storytelling, the lives of women in Minoan Crete, and the process of recreating ancient religious rites from mythology.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With Robin Lane Fox

Robin Lane Fox, who has taught Homer for over forty years and wrote 'Homer and His Iliad,' argues Homer directly dictated the epic himself; where, how, and when it was composed remain open questions.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Mary Beard, Edith Hall

Professor Dame Mary Beard and Professor Edith Hall join Dan to break down Homer's epic poem, weighing what the Odyssey reveals about Ancient Greece: traditions, anxieties, storytelling, values and its elusive author.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

Part one of a two part investigation into the Bronze Age collapse of eastern Mediterranean civilisation surveys the empires and city-states of the Mycenaean sphere, with the mysterious sea people central to the narrative.

Part of Myths and Legends

Achilles is back, and it becomes god against god, Greek against Trojan, Achilles against Hector, in the most epic battle yet of the Trojan War.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This Q&A answers listener questions about the Ethiopian king Memnon and other unresolved pieces of the Trojan War story.

Part of Have Toga, Will Travel: Exploring Greece and Rome, Ancient and Modern

Sophocles adapted a story about Odysseus in his play Philoctetes, using it to explore deception, persuasion and intractable situations, following the same adaptive precedent modern filmmakers like Christopher Nolan continue.

Part of Instant Classics

Euripides staged the Cyclops as a satyr play in the 5th century BCE, and Apollonius of Rhodes drew on the Odyssey's scope for the Argonautica, the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd surveys vase painters of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, for whom the Trojan War was a very popular subject, including scenes that do not appear in any literary version of the myth.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Myth and archaeology on Minoan Crete: the palace at Knossos, the Thera eruption that was a catalyst for decline and perhaps inspired Plato's Atlantis, Mycenaean subordination, and Ventris deciphering Linear B.

Part of The Ancients

With Jorrit Kelder

Overlooking the Argolid Plain, Mycenae rose to prominence in the late Bronze Age and is known as birthplace of mythical figures such as Agammemnon, King of the Greeks; Tristan Hughes and Dr Jorrit Kelder discuss its walls, tombs and masks.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic journey through the life of Helen of Troy, from her godly parentage and marriage to the king of Sparta to her abduction to Troy, asking whether she was a victim or the mistress of her own fate.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 24 closes the Iliad as Achilles and Priam reach an understanding, looking back at the whole poem and asking why the story ends like this, with Achilles alive at the end.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 9 of the Iliad sends Odysseus, Phoenix and Ajax to persuade Achilles back into the war, breaking down their three arguments and the Greek word for glory.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 5 of the Iliad has Ares fighting for the Trojans and Athena for the Greeks at Troy, framing a debate on fate and free will.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Emily Hauser

Emily Hauser's Penelope's Bones (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025) uses archaeology and science to recover the lives of Bronze Age women standing behind Helen, Briseis, Cassandra and Circe.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Michelle M. Kundmueller

Michelle Kundmueller's Homer's Hero (SUNY Press, 2019) reads the Iliad's love of honor against the Odyssey's longing for home, tracing both through Plato's Republic.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Father Bonaventure

Adam Minihan and Father Bonaventure, OP discuss Book 4 of the Odyssey, where Telemachus reaches Sparta during a double wedding feast as Menelaus' daughter marries the son of Achilles.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Zeus calling the gods to council in Book 20 and Poseidon's promise that Aeneas and his descendants will rule the men of Troy.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jessica Hooten Wilson

Deacon Harrison Garlick welcomes Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson to discuss Book 15 of the Iliad, the Achaean armies at bay, and the relationship between men and the will of the gods.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

Dan Snow weighs the theories of ancient and modern scholars to see whether a route can be built for Odysseus from Troy, modern Hisarlik in Turkey, to Malta, Sicily and Ithaca.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. continues through the Odyssey, walking through the hero's journey and the theory of the cosmic journey, with a cameo from some tableware that turns out to be gold.

Part of Myths and Legends

This episode finishes this leg of the Odyssey's journey, packed with a witch, pig-men, more giants, Scylla, Charybdis, Hades, Tiresias, and Hercules.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski discusses Iliad 8-9 and 14-15, focusing on the relationship between Zeus and the other gods and Achilles' stubborn rejection of Agamemnon's peace offering.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Follows the goddess Thetis, her forced marriage and the Judgement of Paris as the origins of the Trojan War, drawing on Pindar, the Cypria and modern parallels on sexual violence.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Trojan War myth, Egyptian and Hittite records of Mykenaian conflict, the Hisarlik layers VI and VII, the Bronze Age collapse and its possible causes, the Sea Peoples and the so-called Dorian Invasion.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Fifty-one minutes weighing whether Homer's Odyssey preserves echoes of a long-lost voyage beyond the Mediterranean, perhaps even across the Atlantic; a speculative discussion informed by Homeric scholarship, archaeology and ancient literature.

Part of The Ancients

With Daisy Dunn

The Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the world's most famous poems, preserved for almost 3 millennia; Tristan and Daisy Dunn dissect the works and legacy of their author, Homer, from the Trojan War to Ionic and Aeolic Greeks.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Christopher Metcalf

Christopher Metcalf, Associate Professor in Classical Literature at the University of Oxford, compares myths of kingship in early Greece and the ancient Near East, from Gilgamesh and Sargon to Iliad Book 1.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Jennifer Saint

Jennifer Saint introduces Clytemnestra and Elektra, the wife and daughter of Agamemnon, along with the prophetess Cassandra and the murderous curse over the House of Atreus.

Part of Ancient History Hound

With Lottie Luke

Ancient History Hound and guest Lottie Luke review The Return, a film about Odysseus returning to Ithaca, weighing how it differs from the Odyssey poem.

Part of Ad Navseam

After the Cyclops, Odysseus receives the winds from Aeolus then decides on nap time without telling his crew, survives the cannibal Laestrygonians, and reaches Circe's island of Aeaea with help from Hermes.

Part of Ad Navseam

Trapped with Odysseus and his men in the cave of the dreaded chatterbox Cyclops, the guys ask whether the Cyclops is really that bad, how the Greeks define civilization, and whether cheese can carry a society.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Kim Shelton

Dr Kim Shelton of the University of California, Berkley, explains what is known about Mycenaean settlements on mainland Greece and how they would have been used in the Bronze Age.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv continues reading Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy, as Odysseus and Diomedes search for Achilles' son Neoptolemus to counter Eurypylus.

Part of Instant Classics

With Mary Beard, Charlotte Higgins

Mary and Charlotte give their instant verdict on Christopher Nolan's Odyssey the morning after its premiere, with a headline scorecard naming winners such as Samantha Morton and losers such as the Gods.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Harvard's Gregory Nagy and Brandeis' Leonard Muellner, both of the Center for Hellenic Studies, trace what anthropology reveals about the origins of humanity's oldest epic stories and the undying fascination with heroes.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Princeton's Andrew Ford discusses what vision of the world Homer's Iliad offers its audience and what specifically makes the poem an epic.

Part of The Ancients

With Caroline Lawrence

Half man, half bull, the story goes that the Minotaur was trapped in a labyrinth beneath Knossos and fed on human flesh until slain by Theseus; Tristan Hughes and Caroline Lawrence explore what Ancient Greeks perceived it to be.

Part of The Ancients

With Andrew Shapland

The legend of the Minotaur and its labyrinth has captivated people for centuries; Tristan visits the Ashmolean museum to interview Dr Andrew Shapland about the Bronze Age settlement of Knossos on Crete, home of the mythical King Minos.

Part of Tides of History

The episode traces how Minoan civilization on Crete reached an apex of sophistication in the Late Bronze Age, while the Mycenaeans emerged on the Greek mainland, building the palaces and society that founded the later Greek world.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

With Jess Zimmerman

Circe turns men into pigs, enchants sailors with herbs and feasts, and turns a woman into dogs from the waist down, earning the title of the Odyssey's biggest badass.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jared Zimmerer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan, with Dr. Jared Zimmerer, discuss Book 18 of the Odyssey, where Odysseus the beggar defeats the beggar Irus and Penelope lures gifts from the suitors.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Agamemnon's day of glory in Book 11 of the Iliad, along with Peleus' command to Patroclus and Nestor's reminder that Achilles will listen to Patroclus for his own good.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Professor Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne, back for a fifth appearance, explains how the Mycenaeans in the 14th century BCE gained dominion of at least Knossos on Crete, and possibly the entire island.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Professor Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne returns to discuss the Minoans, a civilization on Crete that flourished, and ultimately ended, during the Bronze Age.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Dimitri Nakassis

Linear B is the writing system used by the civilization known as the Mycenaeans; Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, professor and chair of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder, discusses this Late Bronze Age writing system.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Homer's Iliad Book V in Samuel Butler's prose translation, in which Diomedes runs rampant on the battlefield through this bonus reading episode.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv and Michaela discuss Odysseus's encounter with Polyphemus and how the Odyssey frames the Cyclops as a monstrous outsider.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv discusses writing her own modern retelling of the Odyssey and reads a passage from the finished book.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This episode retells the myth of the Lemnian women, who took revenge on their abusers and oppressors.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Professor Christopher Mackie

Professor Christopher Mackie recaps the culminating events of the Iliad, focusing on Hector's fate and death and the role the goddess Athena plays in his final battle.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte examine Helen through Homer's Iliad, where she watches Paris duel Menelaus, and Virgil's Aeneid, where she becomes a hate figure and focus of Aeneas's murderous fantasies.

Part of Instant Classics

With Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson tells Mary and Charlotte why translating from Ancient Greek to modern English is so difficult, and reveals she will publish a second translation of the Odyssey after enjoying the process so much.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Archaeologist Eric Cline explains what caused the simultaneous collapse around 1177 BC of the Mycenaeans, the Hittites and most other Bronze Age civilizations.

Part of The Ancients

With C. Brian Rose

When Heinrich Schliemann began excavating Troy in the late 19th century, understanding of the ancient world changed forever; Tristan and Professor C. Brian Rose ask what modern archaeology tells us about the people who lived there.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic trace how archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered in 1870 what he claimed was Troy, then searched for Mycenae, the dominion of Agamemnon, whose sacrifice of his daughter unleashed a terrible vengeance from Clytemnestra.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Ellen Adams

Ellen Adams tells David Musgrove that the Bronze-Age Minoan civilisation, centred on Crete and dated roughly from 3000 to 1200BC, is best known for the legend of the Minotaur and the palace of Knossos.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

With Nathaniel "Natty" Wicks

Nathaniel "Natty" Wicks joins the hosts for the next installment of Odysseus's famous journey, as the hosts go to hell and back and talk to the dead along the way.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 16 of the Iliad has Achilles lending Patroclus his armor for battle, asking what drives him to fight so fiercely before his fatal undoing.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Back to nymphs, this time all about water nymphs of rivers, the sea, the springs and lakes: Oceanids, Nereids and Naiads, with a warning that the talk runs from cannibalism and castration to drowning.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Patroclus begging Achilles in a dream to bury him quickly so his spirit can pass the Gates of Hades, then the funeral games at the Achaean camp.

Part of Dan Snow's History Hit

With Tristan Hughes, Andrew Shapland

Dr Andrew Shapland, curator of a new exhibition at the Ashmolean, joins Tristan on the Bronze Age settlement of Knossos in Crete, where artefacts hint at human sacrifices being carried out.

Part of Myths and Legends

This is the culmination of many earlier stories, bringing together Achilles, Helen, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Hector and Odysseus in the opening telling of the Trojan War.

Part of Our Fake History

To weigh whether the Trojan War was a real historical event, this final part scours the Iliad for clues, peruses ancient Hittite clay tablets and checks archaeological evidence Heinrich Schliemann did not destroy.

Part of Our Fake History

For the Ancient Greeks the Trojan War marked the bloody end of the so-called Age of Heroes, when superhuman demi-gods stopped walking the earth; was any of it a real conflict?

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This first-ever live recording at the Vancouver Podcast Festival covers the stories of Zeus, Io, Hera and Argus, plus Orpheus and Eurydice, followed by audience questions.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads Homer's Iliad Book II in Samuel Butler's prose translation, in which Agamemnon tests the will of the Greeks after so many years at war.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Clytemnestra's anger and Iphigenia's strength close out this third part of Euripides's tragedy about the sacrifice of Agamemnon's eldest daughter that let the Greek fleet sail for Troy.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo examines Sophocles' Ajax, one of the earliest surviving Greek plays, produced around 440 BC, and its tragic hero's struggle to cope with a changing world.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo traces Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, performed late in the Peloponnesian War, following the mythical decisions that send the Greek fleet to Troy.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Professor Chris Mackie investigates Homer's Iliad through Achilles, the greatest warrior in Greek myth, a hero born to a goddess, raised by a centaur and destined to die young.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte track Cassandra, the Trojan princess cursed never to be believed, through Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid, from her Trojan Horse warning to her death at Mycenae.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Professor Chris Mackie discusses monstrous aspects of Achilles' rage, and Hector's doomed quest to save Troy, in which he must choose to face Achilles in heroic battle or be hunted like an animal.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The archaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean Greeks, ca. 1650-1250 BC, particularly at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos, what the Linear B tablets can tell about their society, economy and religion, and their Mediterranean trade network.

Part of Epic Greek History

Clues from the Homeric epics, excavations at Troy and ancient Hittite documents on whether the Trojan War saga had its basis in historical fact, after the 19th-century discoveries of Troy and Mycenaean Greece.

Part of In Our Time

The epic attributed to Homer tells of an episode in the Trojan War framed by the wrath of Achilles, who withdraws after being insulted by Agamemnon and returns only when his friend Patroclus is killed by the Trojan hero Hector.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 8 of the Iliad turns to the Greek gods' seemingly random actions, as Zeus finally intervenes with his golden scales and lightning bolts.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Bill Beck

Bill Beck, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University, publishes the first volume of a translation of the ancient scholia to Homer's Iliad, the vetera scholia to Iliad Book 1-2, first in a series.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Christos C. Tsagalis

Christos Tsagalis, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discusses Iliad Book 10, traditionally split into the Nyktegersia night-watch scene and the spy-mission that follows it.

Part of Ad Navseam

Telemachus leaves Ithaca for the Peloponnese, visiting Nestor before reaching Sparta, where Menelaus and Helen give conflicting versions of the Trojan Horse story.

Part of Ad Navseam

Boar's-tusk helmets, Nestor's cup, elaborate burials and a catalog of ships supply the archaeological and linguistic evidence weighed here for a historical core to the Trojan War.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Joel P. Christensen

Dr Joel Christensen of Brandeis University discusses Achilles, one of the central figures in Homer's The Iliad, who lives on in Greek mythology and in the commonly used idiom Achilles' heel.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Dr Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne discusses architecture on the Greek islands during the Bronze Age, including the islands of Crete and Santorini.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers the first half of book 9 of the Iliad, the start of the Embassy to Achilles: Agamemnon sending gifts to win him back, and Achilles' emotional reply laying bare his disillusionment with the heroic code.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book XI of the Iliad, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, follows Achilles sending Patroclus to find out what has been going on in the war.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book XIII of the Iliad, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, has a prophet warning Hector about Achilles in this bonus, non-narrative reading of Homer.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book XXIII of the Iliad, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, follows the ghost of Patroclus visiting Achilles, a bonus, non-narrative reading of Homer.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

In this New Years episode, Liv and Michaela react to the news that Christopher Nolan is adapting the Odyssey.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd weighs the evidence for Homer's Troy and the glories of Late Bronze Age Greece, especially Mycenae, home of Agamemnon, asking whether the Trojan War the poet describes actually happened.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte offer a pre-screening primer on Homer's Odyssey ahead of Christopher Nolan's adaptation, covering homecoming, post-traumatic disorder, the cost of war, growing up, fidelity and colonisation.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Richard Martin

Mythology expert Richard Martin on why the Odyssey has been considered great storytelling across millennia: episodes inherited from an oral tradition reaching back into the Bronze Age, woven together and ordered for maximum effect.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode covers the Mycenaean civilization of warrior kings ruling from great palaces that dominated the surrounding territories, centuries before the Parthenon, Greek drama and the Olympic Games, tracing what it drew from Minoan Crete.

Part of Tides of History

The episode asks what tied together mainland Greece, Minoan Crete and the city of Troy within the Bronze Age world, pointing to trade, the emergence of cities and elite classes, and the development of state structures and writing.

Part of In Our Time

Many historians give the name Bronze Age Collapse to what appears to have been a sudden, uncontrolled destruction around 1200 BC, and the reasons for the changes remain open to debate.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick delivers a critique of Christopher Nolan's new film The Odyssey, arguing it flattens Homer's characters after the podcast's twelve-week deep dive into the epic.

Part of Ad Navseam

Zeus sends Hermes to free Odysseus from Calypso after seven years, and Odysseus and Nausicaa have a go at jarts while Demodocus plucks the hottest hits of the Mycenaean Era.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Uroš Matić

Dr Uroš Matić of the Austrian Academy of Sciences discusses how communities from the Aegean, including the Minoans and Mycenaeans, carried on trade in Egypt during the Late Bronze Age.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Continuing book 9 of the Iliad, Anthony covers Phoenix delivering the longest speech in the poem, Achilles' reply, and Ajax's straight-talking words to close out the embassy to Achilles.

Part of Myths and Legends

Menelaus sparks the biggest battle of the war so far, and it only grows bigger from there, as the Trojan War, still without Achilles, takes its darkest turn yet.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book XXIV of the Iliad, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, follows Zeus forcing Achilles to return the body of Hector, a bonus, non-narrative reading of Homer.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Book IV of the Odyssey, read in Samuel Butler's prose translation, follows Telemachus visiting Sparta for news from Menelaus, a bonus, non-narrative reading of Homer.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This reading of Book IV, part two, of Apollonios' Argonautika follows the fleeing Argonauts reaching Circe's island on their way toward the Phaeacians.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This episode gives a brief look at the causes behind the societal collapse of the Bronze Age Mediterranean world, drawing on Thucydides and Eric Cline's research.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This episode surveys Bronze Age Greece's contact with the wider Mediterranean, weighing the evidence for a historical Troy.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo examines Euripides' Trojan Women, set after the fall of Troy, as a lament for the fallen city and the fate of its women, destined for slavery.

Part of Tides of History

The episode asks whether burned palaces in Mycenaean Greece, and a city known as Troy among those destroyed on the Asian side of the Aegean, were the context that centuries later gave rise to Homer's tale of the Trojan War.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Daisy Dunn

In the second episode of a four-part series on the Odyssey, Kev Lochun and classicist Daisy Dunn explore Odysseus's adventures with the Cyclops and the witch Circe, and what they say about Greek views of civilisation, gender and divine power.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

Circe, also called Kirke, is on the docket as the host continues to take his co-host on the fantastic voyage of the Odyssey, a story the episode frames as one of female power and animal transformation.

Part of Mythunderstood : A Greek (& other) Mythology Podcast

The hosts gear up for the epic Trojan War by setting up the prehistory of Peleus and the Judgement of Paris, an episode featuring the delights of an HBO series along with gratuitous sex and nudity.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 18 of the Iliad examines Achilles's grief over Patroclus's death through the original Greek text, asking what the words reveal about their bond.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Emily Wilson

Homer's Odyssey, an epic poem from around 750 BC, is discussed with translator Emily Wilson, whose eighty-page introduction frames hospitality as a political tool while the episode asks whether that story teaches anything about ethics.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan welcome Thomas Lackey back to discuss Book 13 of the Iliad, the story of Asius, and why Garlick calls it his least favorite book so far.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan discuss Book 10 of the Iliad, where Hector calls for a spy and Diomedes goes on a nighttime rampage while Agamemnon cannot sleep.

Part of Ad Navseam

Odysseus travels to the land of the dead, where the ghost of Elpenor appears fresh from Circe's island, Tiresias delivers his prophecy, and his mother Anticleia's shade cannot be embraced.

Part of Ad Navseam

The Odyssey opens with Penelope and Telemachus besieged on Ithaca by greedy suitors, and the poem's first word, andra, might be a guidestone for its deeper themes.

Part of Ad Navseam

The tour through Homer's Iliad ends with death on all sides as Patroclus and Hector die, with the guys weighing the aesthetics of greaves, shields and the so-called Superman paradox.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers book 13 of the Iliad: fierce fighting after the Trojans have broken through the wall, Poseidon stepping in to empower the Aiantes, and the Cretans Idomeneus and Meriones joining the fray after some banter.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers the teichomachia in book 12 of the Iliad, the battle around the Greek wall, Sarpedon's speech on why heroes fight, and Hector's breach of the wall after picking up a big rock.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

The concluding half of the Bronze Age collapse series traces the fate of Homer's Achaeans, the Mycenaeans, through the ills besetting their society toward a case for a mass migration and for Greek participation in the Sea People events.

Part of The Delicious Legacy

Homer's Odyssey supplies the frame for exploring feasting, cooking and xenia, the Greek custom of hospitality to strangers, alongside archaeological discoveries from the real Bronze Age Greece behind the epic.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

This brief history covers the Minoan people of Bronze Age Crete, drawing on written sources such as Thucydides and Rodney Castleden.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Liv reads the final part of Apollonios' Argonautika: the Argonauts leave Phaeacia with Jason and Medea already married, then get lost in Libya before finally reaching the Greek mainland.

Part of The Ancients

With Emily Hauser

Cursed by Apollo to always speak the truth but never be believed, Cassandra's story is explored by Tristan Hughes and Dr Emily Hauser through her treatment at the hands of gods and men, and her role in the Iliad.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Owen and Isabella Gemmer open Book 1 of the Iliad, the first episode of a journey through the Iliad and Odyssey one book at a time, centered on Achilles' rage.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 11 of the Odyssey sends Odysseus into the Underworld for advice from Tiresias, where he meets Agamemnon and Achilles among the dead.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 22 of the Odyssey has Odysseus revealed in his true form, killing nearly everyone in the house and reshaping how he is seen.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 1 of the Odyssey opens on Ithaca, introducing Telemachus, Penelope and the suitors before Odysseus ever appears, and asks why the epic begins there.

Part of WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey

Book 22 of the Iliad delivers the long-awaited duel between Achilles and Hector, weighing whether it lives up to the hype.

Part of Ad Navseam

Wolfgang Petersen's 2004 film Troy gets revisited here, questioning its Homeric spirit and awarding Orlando the Tiresias prize for the most obnoxious performance in the cast.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Louise Hitchcock

Professor Louise Hitchcock of the University of Melbourne, in a fourth appearance, discusses Minoan palaces, villas and other residential buildings, in settlements advanced for the time, with labyrinthine architecture in the palatial buildings.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers the Doloneia, book 10 of the Iliad: the night raid of Diomedes and Odysseus spying on the Trojans, their encounter with Dolon, and scholarly criticism of the book's awkward place in the poem.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers book 6 of the Iliad, Hector's brief return to Troy and the glimpse it gives inside the doomed city, tracing how small early moments frame the book's bigger emotional turns.

Part of The Homeric Epic Podcast

Anthony covers book 5 of the Iliad, the longest in the poem, where Athena brings honor to Diomedes; he compares it to the Epic of Gilgamesh and looks at how Homer's gods elevate his heroes without denigrating them.

Part of Spartan History Podcast

The conclusion follows Helen of Sparta from the death of Hector to her return home over the ashes of Troy, reuniting with her daughter Hermione after a decade among the Trojan women.

Part of Myths and Legends

Several connected stories from Greek mythology begin with Hades and Persephone before turning to the curse of the house of Atreus, starting with Tantalus and his questionable food choices, in a long dark episode.

Part of Our Fake History

Is the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur just a bedtime story, or does it hold real clues about a conflict between ancient Bronze Age civilizations?

Part of Mythology & Fiction Explained

The events that transpired which caused the Trojan War, one of the largest scale wars in Greek mythology and its most significant war.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Jennifer Saint

Ariadne is more than the Minotaur, the Labyrinth, Theseus or even Dionysus, argues this conversation with author Jennifer Saint about her new book retelling Ariadne and Phaedra.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

In this rambling holiday special, Liv and Michaela debate who was worse, Achilles or Odysseus, in a lighthearted Battle of the Bastards showdown.

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Euripides' Orestes concludes: Apollo enters to tie everything in a nice little bow, amid murder, mayhem, and weirdly helpful gods.

Part of Instant Classics

Mary and Charlotte follow Helen's journey home from Troy after Menelaus spares her, through a stop in Egypt to Sparta, where Telemachus, son of Odysseus, arrives asking after his father.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Thirty minutes of story on Hermes locating a judge for a beauty contest between three vain and vindictive goddesses, then fourteen minutes of commentary on timeline inconsistencies and Rubens' The Judgment of Paris.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Thirty minutes of story cover Paris settling into Troy and his road trip to Sparta, then fourteen minutes of commentary trace the cliff-throwing stories about Spartan infanticide back to Plutarch, writing five centuries after the events he describes.

Part of The Ancients

With Natalie Haynes

To mark Women's History Month, Tristan and Natalie Haynes discuss the place of Helen of Troy in mythology and history, often viewed through the male gaze, and her conception, abductions and grief after the Trojan War.

Part of The Ancients