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Odyssey: A Daily Odyssey into Homer’s The Odyssey, and more is a daily read-along podcast exploring one of the most influential works in Western literature.Every day for one year, host Landen Celano reads one page of Homer’s The Odyssey using Samuel Butler’s 1900…
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Clinging Between Doom and Deliverance (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 12 – Part 14) (opens the original)
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Cast alone upon the wreckage of his ship, Odysseus is carried forward by fate rather than choice. Survival now depends on endurance, timing, and the narrowest margin between destruction and escape. In this passage of The Odyssey, Odysseus lashes mast and keel together and is driven back toward the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis. He clings to a fig tree above the abyss, waits out the monstrous tide, and escapes only by patience and strength before drifting on for days until he reaches Ogygia and
Zeus’s Judgment on the Wine-Dark Sea (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 12 – Part 13) (opens the original)
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The reckoning long delayed finally arrives, spoken among the gods before it crashes down upon mortal men. What was warned against is now answered in full. In this passage of The Odyssey, Zeus agrees to Helios’s demand for justice, vowing to destroy Odysseus’s ship with a thunderbolt. Strange omens follow—the cattle’s flesh moves and cries—and after days of feasting, the crew sets sail straight into divine punishment as storm, lightning, and shipwreck descend. This moment seals the fate of Odysse
The Slaughter of the Sun God’s Cattle (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 12 – Part 12) (opens the original)
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The moment Odysseus feared most arrives while he sleeps, heavy with consequence. Hunger and desperation tip his crew toward an act that cannot be undone. In this passage of The Odyssey, Eurylochus convinces the men to slaughter the sacred cattle of Helios, offering improvised prayers and flawed sacrifices in place of proper rites. Odysseus awakens too late, recognizing the deed by its smell and crying out to the gods as Helios himself demands vengeance before the Immortals. This is the irrevocab
Hunger’s Counsel on Thrinacia (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 12 – Part 11) (opens the original)
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A month of unbroken wind turns an island into a prison, and hunger becomes the loudest voice on the shore. In The Odyssey, Book 12, the South Wind blows without ceasing, trapping Odysseus and his men on Thrinacia. While corn and red wine last, they keep their oath and leave the cattle of Helios untouched. But when the stores are spent, necessity drives them to forage with hooks for fish and hunt birds—anything to quiet the gnawing in their bellies. Odysseus departs alone to pray for a way home,
An Oath Made Under Pressure (Homer’s The Odyssey, Book 12 – Part 10) (opens the original)
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Exhaustion forces a promise — and fear lingers beneath it. The danger now waits in hunger and time. In The Odyssey, Book 12, Odysseus yields to his crew’s insistence on landing at Thrinacia but demands a safeguard: a solemn oath that none will harm the sacred cattle of Helios. The men swear, and the ship is moored near fresh water as they eat what remains of Circe’s provisions. Grief follows, and sleep overtakes them. In the night, Zeus unleashes a violent storm, hemming them in. At dawn, Odysse
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