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Our Guest in this episode is Professor Emily Austin from the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad.
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
Lori Ginzberg is Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexual Studies at Penn State University. Professor Ginzberg is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of the Suffrage movement, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life.
Show Notes:Below are the topics covered in this conversation (with time stamps).
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