{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cost of Glory","title":"123 - Odyssey 2: Man of Wiles","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5061,"description":"A goddess offers Odysseus immortality. He says no.\nEight years on Calypso's island. Paradise, more or less. And he spends his days sitting on the beach, weeping for a rocky little kingdom he may never see again.\nWelcome to Part 2 (of 6!) of our series on Homer's great epic.\nPart 2 covers Books 5 to 8. We finally meet the man himself, and he arrives naked, half drowned, and buried under a pile of leaves. Why would anyone choose death over eternal life? And why does the greatest hero of the age get home on charm rather than force?\nFollow Odysseus as he builds his own raft, survives Poseidon's wrath, and talks his way into the most powerful household on the island of the Phaeacians. Meet the women who hold the real power: Calypso, the princess Nausicaa, and Queen Arete, honored like no woman of Homer's own day. Plus King Alcinous, and the blind bard Demodocus, whose song brings Odysseus to tears.\nChristopher Nolan cut three of these four books from his film. They may be the ones that tell you most about who Odysseus really is.\n\nTimestamps:\n00:57 Women, Power and Odysseus\n03:19 Hermes Visits Calypso\n05:25 Odysseus Trapped and Weeping\n06:14 Zeus Orders Release\n11:03 Calypso's Final Offer\n14:07 Why Mortality Matters\n17:45 Raft Building and Agency\n20:32 Poseidon's Storm and Shipwreck\n23:29 Phaeacia's Backstory\n24:10 Nausicaa's Dream\n28:10 Nausicaa Meets Odysseus\n30:54 Winning Nausicaa's Trust\n39:47 Athena Guides Odysseus\n40:53 Bronze Age Heroic Lens\n43:48 Arete and Royal Honor\n46:32 Palace Splendor and Supplication\n49:19 Clothes Test and Charm\n52:53 Cleos and the Bard\n56:12 Feast and Demodocus Song\n01:02:04 Games and Odysseus Flexes\n01:06:46 Aphrodite and Ares Trap\n01:13:03 Gifts and Nausicaa's Farewell\n01:14:56 Trojan Horse Song and Tears\n01:22:43 Closing Thoughts\nCallouts:\nSpecial thanks to Dr. Richard Johnson for his longtime support of the show. You are Caesar and Odysseus's Top Guy!\nSpecial thanks also to the team at ZCash, who are building a digital network to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/e9Sa4TjcD2AANYwBKeHjinbdJ-h9gAVExpbmhJYgOAg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWZm/NGFjZDE3Yzk3MTdm/N2ExOTNlY2U4NTZh/OTgwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}