Richard Hunter and Rebecca Laemmle join me in the Lesche to discuss their new commentary on Odyssey Book 11, in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics ("Green and Yellow") commentary series. 

Ancient texts

• Homer, Odyssey (general) and Iliad (esp. Book 9 and Book 23)   
• Aristophanes, Frogs   
• Plato /Platonic eschatological accounts/underworlds, esp. the Myth of Er in in Republic 10  
• Timon of Phlius (Hellenistic philosopher)
• Vergil, Aeneid
• Seneca, Medea
• Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead   
• Pausanias, Description of Greece (description of Polygnotus' Nekuia painting at Delphi; view a reconstruction here)
• Homeric scholia

Other works

• Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus"
• Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

About our guests

Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek Emeritus in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively in the fields of Greek and Latin literature; his recent books include The Measure of Homer (Cambridge, 2018), (with Rebecca Laemmle) Euripides, Cyclops (Cambridge, 2020), and Greek Epitaphic Poetry: A Selection (Cambridge, 2022), both in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. His essays are collected in On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (2008) and The Layers of the Text (2021). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Rebecca Laemmle is Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her award-winning doctoral thesis was published as Poetik des Satyrspiels (2013). She co-edited, with Richard Hunter, Euripides, Cyclops (Cambridge, 2020) in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series and has published widely in both English and German on ancient literature and its reception.

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Podcast art: Daniel Blanco
Theme music: "The Song of Seikilos," recomposed by Eftychia Christodoulou using Sibelius

This podcast is made possible with the generous support of Brown University’s Department of Classical Studies and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study.

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