Guest:
Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad. Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world.
Show Notes:
Greek concepts of Hell [3:45]
Repeating patterns of grief giving rise to anger [5:30]
Digging into the character of Odysseus [14:20]
Alice Oswald's Memorial as powerful excavation of Homer [16:450
Contemporary echoes of Electra [18:00]
Jonathan Shay on Homer, PTSD, and Vietnam [20:00]
Professor Austin's Odyssey translation recommendation:
Robert Fitzgerald
![Guest: Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad. Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world.
Show Notes: Greek concepts of Hell [3:45]
Repeating patterns of grief giving rise to anger [5:30]
Digging into the character of Odysseus [14:20]
Alice Oswald's Memorial as powerful excavation of Homer [16:450
Contemporary echoes of Electra [18:00]
Jonathan Shay on Homer, PTSD, and Vietnam [20:00]
Professor Austin's Odyssey translation recommendation: Robert Fitzgerald](https://us-central1-podcastguru-217d6.cloudfunctions.net/gcf_get_image?image_url=https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3576936/Mouse-ITunes.png&width=300&height=300&api_key=xqFmUFX5BHLBTA){kind=logo}
