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Isabella Gemmer

Isabella Gemmer presents WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. 50 episodes of it here, 35h in all, from 2025–2026.

Mostly on Minoans and Mycenaeans and Greek Life, Thought and the Wider World.

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  1. 2026Athena Ex Machina | Odyssey Book 24WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey57m
  2. 2026Circe and the Bay of Pigs | Odyssey Book 10WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey44m
  3. 2026Going to see a blind man about a prophecy | Odyssey Book 11WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey45m
  4. 2026How to read the Odyssey with Kyle PrueWINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey1h
  5. 2026It's not looking good for the suitors *foreshadowing* | Odyssey Book 20WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey44m
  6. 2026Late Night Talking in the Olive Tree Bed | Odyssey Book 23WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey33m
  7. 2026Like the Red Wedding, but Worse | Odyssey Book 22WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey45m
  8. 2026May the gods be ever in your favor | Iliad Book 23WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey32m
  9. 2026Nothing could stop the crew from returning home, except Odysseus | Odyssey Book 12WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey41m
  10. 2026Now she's Helen of Sparta | Odyssey Book 4WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey41m
  11. 2026Odysseus and his Massive Thighs | Odyssey Book 18WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey34m
  12. 2026Odysseus is weeping...again | Odyssey Book 8WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey42m
  13. 2026Odysseus isn't what we expected | Odyssey Book 5WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey43m
  14. 2026Odysseus returns home, but doesn't recognize Ithaca | Odyssey Book 13WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey25m
  15. 2026Penelope might be smarter than Odysseus | Odyssey Book 19WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey56m
  16. 2026Telemachus: Far From Home | Odyssey Book 15WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey32m
  17. 2026That's my BOY! | Odyssey Book 16WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey39m
  18. 2026The Cyclops is smarter than you think | Odyssey Book 9WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey53m
  19. 2026The Odyssey doesn't start with Odysseus | Odyssey Book 1WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey45m
  20. 2026The Rage of Achilles is OVER | Iliad Book 24WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey52m
  21. 2026The big reveal you've all been waiting for | Odyssey Book 21WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey31m
  22. 2026The first person Odysseus meets in Ithaca (not the suitors) | Odyssey Book 14WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey36m
  23. 2026The saddest part of the Odyssey | Odyssey Book 17WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey39m
  24. 2026This is awkward... | Odyssey Book 6WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey35m
  25. 2026Travis Scott is in Nolan's Odyssey | Odyssey Book 3WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey36m
  26. 2026We catch Odysseus in a lie | Odyssey Book 7WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey33m
  27. 2026What is the Odyssey about?WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey25m
  28. 2026Who's your daddy? Athena | Odyssey Book 2WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey41m
  29. 2025Achilles will eat his fill of WAR | Iliad Book 19WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey34m
  30. 2025Achilles will fight nature itself | Iliad Book 21WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey34m
  31. 2025Addressing Song of Achilles | Iliad Book 18WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey46m
  32. 2025Another duel where no one dies | Iliad Book 7WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey42m
  33. 2025Ares works hard, but Athena works harder | Iliad Book 5WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey52m
  34. 2025Being done, thus Wall away doth go | Iliad Book 12WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey44m
  35. 2025Can Achilles be persuaded to fight? | Iliad Book 9WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey52m
  36. 2025How to trick a god | Iliad Book 14WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey37m
  37. 2025Most people skip this part of the Iliad | Iliad Book 2WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey39m
  38. 2025Odysseus is in the Iliad too | Iliad Book 10WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey55m
  39. 2025Once more unto the breach, dear friends | Iliad Book 15WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey35m
  40. 2025Over Patroclus's dead body | Iliad Book 17WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey28m
  41. 2025Patroclus goes beast mode, then dies | Iliad Book 16WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey49m
  42. 2025Similes & Sick Burns | Iliad Book 11WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey42m
  43. 2025The Battle of the Red Shirts | Iliad Book 13WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey39m
  44. 2025The Bicameral Mind in the Iliad | Iliad Book 20WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey44m
  45. 2025The Duel that almost ended the Trojan War | Iliad Book 3WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey53m
  46. 2025The Fighting Begins! | Iliad Book 4WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey42m
  47. 2025The duel that you've all been waiting for | Iliad Book 22WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey45m
  48. 2025This book is all about RAGE | Iliad Book 1WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey45m
  49. 2025We need to talk about the greek gods | Iliad Book 8WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey48m
  50. 2025What if Hector chose to not fight? | Iliad Book 6WINNOW: A Couple’s Close Reading of the Iliad and Odyssey1h