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Get in Loser, We're Reading Epic Poems

Get in Loser, We're Reading Epic Poems

Young Heretics · Spencer Klavan

January 9, 202556m 47s

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Show Notes

It's a new year, and it's time for a new epic. You asked, we delivered: here comes Virgil's Aeneid! BUT FIRST: while we were gone over the Christmas vacation, Twitter descended into an intoxicating madness of epic adaptation, debate, and counter-programming. I'll recap the major points and give my take on: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, whether you should have heard of Homer before, and what you should think of Emily Wilson's new translations. Then we'll launch into our new series for the year, on the little Roman epic with big hopes to rival Greece.

Use code HERETICS to get 10% off Field of Greens: fieldofgreens.com

Read my review of Emily Wilson's Odyssey and Iliad translations: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/homer-without-heroes/

Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM

I maked this: "The Crisis of Purpose in the West": https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/report/resurrection-or-surrender-the-crisis-purpose-the-west