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UnavailableLandmark: The Odyssey
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Landmark: The Odyssey

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Currently unavailable

Landmark: The Odyssey

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir.



Emily Wilson has published a new translation of The Odyssey

Daniel Mendelsohn has written An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic

Karen McCarthy Woolf wrote Nightshift as part of a BBC Radio 4's Odyssey Project which commissioned ten writers to create a contemporary response. Her most recent collection is called Seasonal Disturbances.

Amit Chaudhuri has written a novel called Odysseus Abroad which draws on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Odyssey.
Released:
Jan 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.