The Odyssey: Every Island, Every Monster explained in 91 minutes.

A man sits on a beach at the edge of the world and cries, because a goddess has offered him eternal life and he does not want it. He wants a stony island that grows nothing but goats and olives, a wife who is cleverer than he is, and a son he has never spoken to. This is the whole Odyssey, all twenty years of it. From the burning of Troy to an old man kneeling in an orchard. Not a summary. Every island, every monster, every bad decision, in order, in one sitting. Six hundred men left for Troy with him. He comes home alone. ⏱ 91 minutes. Best with headphones, or as something to fall asleep to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 A man on a beach at the edge of the world 01:44 Troy is over 07:33 The Cicones 10:02 The Lotus Eaters 14:13 The cave of Polyphemus 16:56 "My name is Nobody" 19:00 Under the ram 22:26 The bag of winds 26:10 The Laestrygonians 29:51 Circe 34:04 The country of the dead 36:29 His mother, Anticleia 42:32 The Sirens 46:17 Scylla and Charybdis 49:15 The cattle of the sun 53:27 The last shipwreck 54:18 Calypso — seven years 1:01:14 Nausicaa and the Phaeacians 1:04:31 "Tell us your name" 1:05:31 Ithaca 1:11:05 Eumaeus the swineherd 1:13:01 Argos 1:15:54 The scar 1:17:51 The contest of the bow 1:21:19 The reckoning 1:25:54 The bed 1:28:29 Laertes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A few things people always ask: Which translation is this based on? It follows Homer's story beat for beat but it is retold in plain modern English, not a translation. If you want a real one, start with Emily Wilson's. Is the ending really that quiet? Yes. After the killing there is an old man in an orchard and a walk down the rows of the trees, and that is the point. Why does he tell the Cyclops his real name? Because he cannot help it. That one sentence costs him ten years and every man he has. #TheOdyssey #GreekMythology #Homer