The Iliad
Homer
Mentioned 27 time(s) by 15 guest(s): 2 recommend.
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): recommend
“…It's an amazing book. I'm so happy to have gotten a chance to engage with it.…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): recommend
“…I didn't know that Homer and The Iliad would be a passageway to deepening a friendship.…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): mention
“…much of The Iliad is literally nestled in people's lives being cut short…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): mention
“…And that's kind of what The Iliad is for me.…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2026-07-20): mention
“…I had The Iliad in my hand, I had the Kindle in my hand…”
Ido Hevroni on EconTalk (2026-07-06): mention
“…one can approach The Iliad and The Odyssey as classics…”
Ido Hevroni on EconTalk (2026-07-06): mention
“…The Iliad and The Odyssey are the genesis of the Western culture.…”
Ido Hevroni on EconTalk (2026-07-06): mention
“…It didn't start from reading The Iliad itself.…”
Ido Hevroni on EconTalk (2026-07-06): mention
“…It's very surprising to discover that The Iliad, which the meaning is the story of the Trojan War…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…Imagine the class in the Iliad, and you have everyone read it in six weeks…”
Hugh Howey on The Tim Ferriss Show (2024-03-16): mention
“…the fact that I can read The Iliad, 2,000-year-old story written in a different language…”
Erik Hoel on EconTalk (2023-07-24): mention
“…if you went back and you looked at very early historical texts--particularly for him, the Iliad--…”
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Jonathan Gpt Swift on Conversations with Tyler (2023-03-29): mention
“…As the author of the epic poems “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” Homer is a foundational figure…”
Zach Weinersmith on EconTalk (2023-03-13): mention
“…I'd done a joke about The Iliad on Twitter and I had a guy who was like…”
Zach Weinersmith on EconTalk (2023-03-13): mention
“…But, like, 100 lines of the Iliad is quite doable.…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2023-01-23): mention
“…where you get exposed to The Iliad, where you get exposed to The Odyssey…”
Byrne Hobart on Dwarkesh Podcast (2022-12-01): mention
“…But you can also go back to the Iliad and read another case where sunk cost fallacy dominated strictly rational decision making…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2022-11-14): mention
“…When the Greeks and the Trojans in the Iliad say to each other, 'I don't just want to win this war…”
Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education
Margaret Atwood on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-02-24): mention
“…So you read The Iliad and The Odyssey, you can see that there’s a narrative approach, very useful.…”
Claudia Hauer on EconTalk (2021-07-05): mention
“…something like the Iliad where you see all these metaphors…”
Claudia Hauer on EconTalk (2021-07-05): recommend
“…I would argue that the Iliad, we should read it for its own sake.…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2021-05-10): mention
“…I think it's in the Iliad.…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2020-10-19): mention
“…because you put The Iliad in there, but then you put Derek Walcott's book in there…”
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Robert Shiller on EconTalk (2020-02-03): mention
“…It was Homer in his Iliad uses the word 'automato,'…”
Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…The Iliad? Yes, I’m doing the Iliad.…”
Matt Levine on Conversations with Tyler (2018-02-14): mention
“…The Iliad is the story of Achilles is the great warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan War.…”
William Bernstein on EconTalk (2013-05-06): mention
“…Homer didn't write the Iliad and the Odyssey.…”
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