Two men. Achilles and Odysseus. Two central themes across two books. The Iliad and the Odyssey. War and Home. One lives a life of inscincere happiness. The other a life of authentic grief, but is one better than the other? Painting: Today a photo I took while in Israel studying archaeology. It is an elderly couple walking hand in hand through a ruinous city. It is entitled, 'Until the End of Time. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: Bibliography: Albacini, F. (c.1825) Wounded Achilles. Marble sculpture. Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. The Devonshire Collections, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. Homer (2003) The Iliad. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Homer (2003) The Odyssey. Translated by E.V. Rieu. Revised by D.C.H. Rieu and updated by P. Jones. London: Penguin Classics. Mengi, M. (ed.) (2004) Odysseus and Calypso. Red figure vase, clay. Paris: Louvre Museum. Sartre, J.-P. (1946) Existentialism is a humanism. Available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/students/dtc/students2011/maitland/philosophy/sartre-eih.pdf (Accessed: March 2025) Woolven, S. (2020) Until the End of Time. Photo. Additional segments throughout the podcast include: • Mantle Piece Moments • What are you reading? • On that Quote Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQzE_T2r6qPR_jbZNgZC1Q Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-novel-review-podcast/id1681724908 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5uCgZyBj9T5uPQsfbqTUW5 Podbean: https://anovelreviewpodcast.podbean.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/novelreviewpod Email: anovelreviewpodcast@gmail.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/anovelreviewpod/ -------- #ANovelReview #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #poetry #literature #books #novels #booktok #bookstagram #bookwitter #books #novels #literaryfacts #podbean #LiteraryLovers #whatareyoureading #BookLaunch #Literature #PodcastAndChill #BookBoost #BookLover #Art #Watercolour #WatercolourArt #TinyArt #WW2 #WorldWarTwo #NaziGermany #Education #Fantasy #Gormenghast
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