The Odyssey
Homer
Mentioned 43 time(s) by 25 guest(s): 3 recommend.
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
“…How it ends, you will have to read The Odyssey, which would recount backwards what happened…”
Ido Hevroni on EconTalk (2026-07-06): mention
“…The Iliad and The Odyssey are the genesis of the Western culture.…”
Luke Burgis on EconTalk (2026-06-08): mention
“…Such as The Odyssey, which came up earlier in the call, right?…”
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Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…I am asking it how to read Homer's Odyssey, and that's fine.…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…Here is how to use AI to better read and understand Homer's Odyssey…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…if you are asking it questions about Homer's Odyssey…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…than what the students would, reading Homer's Odyssey…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2026-03-30): mention
“…good questions to ask about Homer's Odyssey…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2025-01-13): mention
“…So, the goddess Circe in The Odyssey tells Odysseus, 'If you want to listen, you can, but make sure that you do two things.…”
Susan Cain on EconTalk (2024-10-28): mention
“…the whole Odyssey begins with, or very early on in the book, with Ulysses weeping on a beach…”
Alexandra Hudson on EconTalk (2023-10-16): mention
“…The Odyssey, it's all about manners.…”
Erik Hoel on EconTalk (2023-07-24): mention
“…if you go over to the Odyssey, which is basically the same tale…”
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Jacob Howland on EconTalk (2023-06-26): mention
“…do you mean going back to opening The Odyssey and saying, here's Odysseus crawling out of the sea…”
Jacob Howland on EconTalk (2023-06-26): mention
“…What are the words of The Odyssey?…”
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…”
Dwayne Betts on EconTalk (2023-01-23): mention
“…where you get exposed to The Iliad, where you get exposed to The Odyssey…”
Steven Pressfield on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-12-15): mention
“…Like The Odyssey, I know I’m probably getting way too deep into this, but Homer’s Odyssey, the story of Odysseus returning from the Trojan War.…”
Jessica Todd Harper on EconTalk (2022-11-07): mention
“…back to The Odyssey and forward, humans love storytelling as a way to understand…”
Russ Roberts on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-08-08): mention
“…Penelope from The Odyssey, Ulysses’ wife, who’s waiting for his return from the Trojan War…”
Roosevelt Montás on EconTalk (2022-06-20): mention
“…begins with Homer in September and reads the Odyssey and runs through…”
Ian Leslie on EconTalk (2022-05-30): mention
“…Homer's The Odyssey is such a formative story for our culture…”
Susan Cain on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-04-03): mention
“…So Odysseus, at the beginning of The Odyssey, of Homer’s Odyssey, that poem basically starts with him weeping…”
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.…”
Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2022-01-19): recommend
“…I'm a sucker, I think I'd pick The Odyssey. It's about travel adventures, a sense of home…”
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Russ Roberts on Conversations with Tyler (2022-01-19): recommend
“…which I think is just one of my favorite books, The Odyssey, is the idea that home pulls you…”
Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant (Ep. 141 - BONUS)
Bret Devereaux on EconTalk (2021-08-30): mention
“…modern adaptations--film, TV--adaptations of The Odyssey--end with the defeat of the suitors…”
Dana Gioia on EconTalk (2021-02-15): recommend
“…Let's just take The Odyssey, which has to be one of the greatest stories ever told…”
Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop
Dana Gioia on EconTalk (2021-02-15): recommend
“…No one with a wife and children can read The Odyssey without enormous emotion and a kind of imaginative expansion…”
Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop
Michael Kremer on Conversations with Tyler (2020-10-21): mention
“…I don't know if it's a novel, but maybe The Odyssey.…”
Guy Raz on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-09-14): mention
“…whether it’s Gilgamesh or The Odyssey or Harry Potter, and Joseph Campbell kind of codifies this…”
Tyler Cowen on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-05-10): mention
“…she was the translator with Homer's Odyssey. I had to know Homer's Odyssey really, really well.…”
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Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…The Odyssey is a poem that’s very interested in parallel narratives…”
Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…The Odyssey is much more varied just in terms of scenes.…”
Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…For the Odyssey, I used iambic pentameter all the way through.…”
Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…I'm the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English, or to publish a translation of the Odyssey into English…”
Agnes Callard on Conversations with Tyler (2018-04-11): mention
“…we read the Odyssey and Genesis and Plato…”
Walter Isaacson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-03): mention
“…Like every great piece of writing from the Bible to The Odyssey to Huckleberry Finn does.…”
Walter Isaacson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-03): recommend
“…But The Odyssey is a particularly important one because I think life is an odyssey.…”
Walter Isaacson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-03): mention
“…I'd love to know what everybody's favorite translation is too. I like the Fagles translation.…”
Doug Lemov on EconTalk (2016-11-28): mention
“…He's going to let me read The Odyssey aloud to him…”
Michael Munger on EconTalk (2015-02-23): mention
“…So I'm going to go with The Odyssey.…”
William Bernstein on EconTalk (2013-05-06): mention
“…Homer didn't write the Iliad and the Odyssey.…”
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