Guest:
Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad. Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world.
Show Notes:
Below are the topics covered in this conversation (with time stamps).
Supreme grief as “lost wholeness” [6:00]
Cultural concepts that are difficult to translate [8:45]
Imperishable glory, and other key themes [10:50]
The Iliad: a story that’s more real then real [16:45]
Listening to the Iliad in Greek [23:53]
