Odysseus
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Odysseus has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Daily. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Madeline MillerAmerican novelist and classics teacher, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles
Miller argues that Odysseus displays what modern readers would recognize as PTSD, though the ancients had no word for it.
“The ancients didn't have a word for PTSD, but I feel that he clearly chose it. And there are other ancient texts where we can see it as well”
The Daily: What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything. (Jul 12, 2026) · Listen from 29:22
Emily WilsonClassicist and translator, the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English
Wilson says Odysseus is complicated because of his multiplicity, code-switching and capacity for self-reinvention, unlike other Homeric heroes.
“He has this capacity for self-reinvention and for having multiple identities, which is very different from anyone else in the universe, in the Homeric universe”
The Daily: What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything. (Jul 12, 2026) · Listen from 28:41
Podcasts
- The Daily · 1 episode
Episodes
What’s Epic About the ‘Odyssey’? Everything.The Daily · Jul 12, 2026 · 51 min
Natalie Kitroeff talks with translator Emily Wilson and novelist Madeline Miller about the Odyssey ahead of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation.