Just finished listening to The Odyssey as narrated by John Lee (Fitzgerald translation). The story is familiar — it’s the ur-story of our culture — but it never grows old. Things I noticed this time around: The contrast between the fates of Odysseus and Agammemnon, and between the characters of Helen, Clytemnesta, and Penelope. The [...]
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