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"Reading the Iliad & the Odyssey is still one..of the great privileges of my life.” Says Tom Hiddleston! Discover his student dissertation & why he thinks Classics important (“it's given me...the courage to live in the question, to tolerate uncertainty"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=i71H...

youtube.com/watch?v=i71H... Latest Instant Classics. Tom Hiddleston (Loki & more) talks about Pompeii & what he got out of studying Classics at uni. He is stunningly eloquent on that!

If you have been enjoying Charlotte and me talking about the Odyssey on Instant Classics, here's our whole back catalogue on YouTube. And next to drop is a conversation with Tom Hiddleston on his Pompeii documentary and what he got out of studying classics at uni. www.youtube.com/@InstantClas...

Enjoying the Odyssey? Fancy a bit more classics? Try our Instant Classics podcast. All things classical from Helen of Troy to Roman dreams. Tom Hiddleston coming up next on his Pompeii documentary. tinyurl.com/52z8jcn4 (you tube), tinyurl.com/482rusya (apple uk)

Here's our Booker prize longlist and us judges!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b... here I talk to Uberto Pasolini about HIS adaptation of the Odyssey of a couple of years ago with R Fiennes and J Binoche. Nolan isn’t the only adaptation in town!

Y'all should watch the Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins YouTube channel @instantclassicspod.bsky.social They have some pretty spicy takes!

In this week's @thetls.bsky.social there's plenty of Classics: M M McCabe on ancient imprisonment, Hugo Shakeshaft on the Parthenon, Lucy Jackson on the Greek Chorus.

My favourite bit so far in the build-up to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has been the projection of Tapestry scenes onto the White Cliffs of Dover plus a heartfelt "merci". tinyurl.com/ytm9hrzj

Pleased to see versions of the Odyssey in the Times/Waterstones bestsellers. But puzzled that it comes in the NON Fiction category. Do they know something we don't?

Cambridge classicist Dame Mary Beard and Slate film critic Dana Stevens joined us today for a great conversation about 'The Odyssey'. wnyc.org/browse/shows...

Another little Odyssey-related gem! Did you know that one favourite decoration for the Roman emperor's dining room was the scene of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus. The dinner party from hell? I discuss this intriguing choice in my emperor book tinyurl.com/262vbr2b

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Charlotte and I turn a classical eye on the Odyssey movie, not to quibble about archaeological detail, but to ask what more you can get out of the film (for better or worse) if you know the poem. Pedants revolt but not too pedantic!!

This walk through The Odyssey with Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins is brilliant. Learning so much. Recommend. open.spotify.com/show/37LpnhQ...

If you have not discovered the extraordinary Mary Beard yet (piles of books; lectures by a fascinating professor we all wish we could audit; series' on BBC / PBS exploring ancient Rome / Romans / Caligula etc.; podcasts, interviews) allow me to introduce her to you, as she expands your knowledge:

I'm early for an appointment & listening to Mary Beard & Charlotte Higgins' pedantic reaction to Nolan's Odyssey, partly about the film's very different moral framework, which reminds me of the poem's omissions: no hint of women war captives in the poem, either. 1/ @instantclassicspod.bsky.social

Beard's essay opens, "I want to start very near the beginning of the tradition of Western literature, and its first recorded example of a man telling a woman to ‘shut up’; telling her that her voice was not to be heard in public." My essay on the Odyssey, Andrew & Tristan Tate, misogyny then & now:

this is how jason looked when he dropped me off at the judging meeting. mary beard barely glanced up, she sees guys like this all the time

The pedants revolt! After our instant reactions last time we put our classical hats on not to spot errors in the armour, but to ask what a specifically classical lens reveals in Nolan’s Odyssey podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

And have you picked up the podcast “instant classics”?