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Episode 6: Book 6 and Robert Graves Homer’s Daughter

The main readings for this episode were Book 6 of the Odyssey and Robert Graves’ novel Homer’s Daughter.

Thank you for listening to Homer’s Odyssey. For our next episode, out on October 15, we will be reading Book 7 of the Odyssey and also Justin Arfft’s 2022 book Arete and The Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation: the Queen and her Question.

Books and similar mentioned in this episode:

Butler, Samuel. The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under hands. E.P. Dutton & Company, London: 1922.

Graves, Robert. Homer’s Daughter. Cassell, London: 1955.

Graves, Robert. I, Claudius. Arthur Baker, London: 1934.

Graves, Robert. The White Goddess. Faber & Faber, London: 1948.

Graves, Robert. Goodbye to all that. Jonathan Cape, London: 1929.

Hainsworth, J.B.. “Books V-VIII” in A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII. Edited by Alfred Heubeck, Stephanie West and J.B. Hainsworth. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1998.

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Third Edition, edited by David F. Elmer. Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge Massachusetts: 2018.

Parry, Milman. “The Traditional Epithet in Homer” in The Making of the Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Edited and translated by Adam Parry. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1971.

Shay, Jonathan. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Scribner, New York: 2002.

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The main readings for this episode were Book 5 of the Odyssey and Johnathan Shay’s 2002 book Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming.

Thank you for listening to Homer’s Odyssey. For our next episode, out on September 15, we will be reading Book 6 of the Odyssey and also Robert Graves’ 1955 novel Homer’s Daughter.

Books and similar mentioned in this episode:

de Jong, Irene. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2001.

Hainsworth, J.B.. “Books V-VIII” in A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII. Edited by Alfred Heubeck, Stephanie West and J.B. Hainsworth. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1998.

Lord, Albert. The Singer of Tales. Third Edition, edited by David F. Elmer. Center for Hellenic Studies, Cambridge Massachusetts: 2018.

Parry, Milman. “The Traditional Epithet in Homer” in The Making of the Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Edited and translated by Adam Parry. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1971.

Shay, Jonatha. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. Scribner, New York: 2002.

Zieliński, Tadeusz. 1899-1901. “Die Behandlung gleichzeitiger Ereignisse im Antiken Epos.” Philologus Suppl. 8: 405-449.

Ancient poetry mentioned:

• Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

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Episode 4: Book 4 and Suzuki’s The Metamorphoses of Helen

The main readings for this episode were Books 4 of the Odyssey and Mihoko Suzuki’s 1989 book The Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference and the Epic.

Next time, September 1, we will read Book 5 of the Odyssey and Jonathan Shay’s 2002 book Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Clayton, Barbara. A Penelopean Poetics: Reweaving the Feminine in Homer’s Odyssey. Lexington Books, New York, 1992.

de Jong, Irene. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2001.

Derrida, Jacques. “Plato’s Pharmacy” in Dissemination. By Jacques Derrida, translated by Barbara Johnson, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Kajillionaire. Directed by Miranda July, performances by Evan Rachel Wood and Debra Winger, Plan B Entertainment, 2020.

Hartocollis, Anemona. “New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It”. New York Times, December 28, 2025. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/us/new-college-ron-desantis-florida-conservative.html?smid=url-share

West, Stephanie. “Commentary on Book 4” in A Commentary on Homer's Odyssey: Volume I: Introduction and Books I-VIII. Edited by Alfred Heubeck, Stephanie West and J.B. Hainsworth. Oxford University Press, Oxford: 1998.

Ancient poetry mention:

• Theocritus, Idyll 18