HeroesX v08 Office Hours 07 | The End of the Odyssey @KosmosSociety2024

Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 47 minutes ago

Discussion topics include: the Odyssey’s totalizing character in performance, eternity as cycling back to Laertes’ garden, and winnowing as a symbolic activity.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on Hours 12 and 13.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Image credit: Wooden winnowing shovel, Natural History Museum, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence
collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co39068/wooden-winnowing-shovel

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