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Spouse who, despite being married to me, has paid zero attention to the Odyssey stuff just asked me "who is Emily Wilson and why is everyone talking about her" After a few minutes, she said "never mind, you're all a bunch of weirdos. I liked the movie"

Double podcast Friday! I joined Josh and Joe to talk about the Odyssey Homer-pilled - TPM – Talking Points Memo share.google/nOPGrvfaOYQW...

Homer-pilledJosh and Joe are joined by Joel Christensen, classics professor at CUNY...share.google

Had a great time talking Homer and Nolan's Odyssey with Bookstore Besties! open.spotify.com/episode/0jBy...

Ep. 129 | Odyssey Hot Takes w/ Joel P. Christensen & Becca!Your Bookstore Besties · Episodeopen.spotify.com

told my son that "to bear" and "burden" are etymologically related and he immediately googled to fact check me because "you say some crazy things about language"

"Reading Greek or Latin can help rearrange reality, providing a therapeutic method of reasserting agency on the world. The slow reading of philology, of communing with the dead through their languages, can help produce what psychologists call a “flow state”. sententiaeantiquae.com/2026/07/30/r...

Reading Homer is like PrayerThis post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books, with an emphasis on new projects and highligh…sententiaeantiquae.com

Reading Homer is like Prayer sententiaeantiquae.com/2026/07/30/r...

Reading Homer is like PrayerThis post is a continuation of Painful Signs, a series of posts on the Iliad. The full list of posts is here. New posts will be added on various books, with an emphasis on new projects and highligh…sententiaeantiquae.com

I really enjoyed talking about Homer with Ivan Wise on the Better Known podcast better-known.zencast.website/episodes/joe...

Joel Christensen on The Odyssey | Better KnownEach week, a guest makes a series of recommendations of things which they think should be better known. Our recommendations include interesting people, places, objects, stories, experiences and ideas ...better-known.zencast.website

The Netter Known Podcast better-known.zencast.website/episodes/joe...

Joel Christensen on The Odyssey | Better KnownEach week, a guest makes a series of recommendations of things which they think should be better known. Our recommendations include interesting people, places, objects, stories, experiences and ideas ...better-known.zencast.website

updated with a seventh thing

True story. Back in 2000 after the release of "o brother where art thou" @professormortis.bsky.social and i spent an entire evening imagining a "can't hardly wait" style teen drama of the odyssey based on getting home from Ithaca to Troy (NY) to a party

Inside of my [phone] there are teo [threads]: one is about the odyssey, movie and poem; the other is my siblings quoting Mallrats

[repeated a thread from the other place] Five (ok, six) ways in which Nolan's Odyssey is Homeric. 1. Narrative structures: a thematic ring with multiple flashbacks and timelines that unfold and entwine. Hello Homer's Odyssey

American Prestige podcast on Nolan's Odyssey americanprestigepod.com/episodes/994...

American Prestige“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.americanprestigepod.com

personalized intersection signs in the Bronx.

Lower Manhattan waking up for the last Monday in July (!)