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Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 22

9/4/2026 • 73 min

Liv reads Book 22of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Ian Johnston. This entire book is basically just a massacre... thanks Odysseus! This modern translation is used with immense gratitude to translator Ian Johnston and Vancouver Island University. Submit questions and prompts for future Odyssey readings at mythsbaby.com/questions and get ad-free episodes and so, s… Play episode

Back To School Replay: A Most Sophoclean Prophecy, Women & Wordplay in Sop…
Back To School Replay: When Poisoned Shirts Have Got You Down, Deianeira &…
Back To School Replay: Deianeira, Iole, & the Violence of Heracles’ Love (…
Back To School Replay: A Husband Like Heracles (Hercules), the Tragedy of …
Conversations: Picking Apart Truth from Satire in Lucian's On the Syrian G…
A Tale of Three Tyrants (Herodotus Bk 3, Part 2)
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 20 and 21
Wine Can Make You Live Forever, My Mother Was Right! (Herodotus Bk 3, Part…
Conversations: The Wonders of the Ancient and Mythical Mediterranean, More…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 19
Conversations: The Americanness of Modern Masculinity... Reception in Nola…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 18
Conversations: What Makes a Dragon Slayer?, Medea w/ Jasmine Elmer
SPOILER SPECIAL: Truly ADHD-fueled Ramblings on Nolan's Odyssey and Wilson…
The Hero We Don't Deserve, Memnon and Other Answers to Your Questions
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 16 and 17
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: The Most Infamous Woman of Greek Myth, A History of H…
ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: Women Are Human Too (Women's 'Health & Medicine')
SPOILER SPECIAL: Liv's Unorganized Thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey (Mostly the…
Conversations: The West Wasn't Built in A Day, the History of Roman Enslav…
Justice for Helen... Revisiting Euripides' Helen (Parts 1-4)
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 15
SPECIAL! Ancient History 101: Gladiator Myths Busted!
RE-AIR: Conversations: Putting the Trans in Transformation, Iphis and Caen…
Let's Learn to Love Anachronisms! Medusa, Odysseus, and More of Your Quest…
RE-AIR: Euripides, Odysseus, and the Only Surviving Satyr Play (Cyclops Pa…
RE-AIR: Conversations: A Man of Many Turns, Odysseus & the Odyssey w/ Joel…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 14
RE-AIR: It Began With an STI, Origins of Athenian Theatre & Euripides’ Sat…
SPECIAL! Selections from the Odyssey: a Modern Retelling AUDIOBOOK!
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 12 & 13
Odysseus Beyond the Odyssey, the Ancient Art of Ret-Conning and Unbelievab…
UPDATE: Technology Failed Me
Zeus, Io, and the Art of Founding Entire Civilizations Based on Women’s Tr…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 11
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Book 10
Conversations: Giving a Voice to a Lost Daughter of Sparta with Felicia Day
An Interbellum Period That is Just as Confusing as You’d Expect (Hellenist…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 8 and 9
Just a Teenage Girl Bullying a Couple of Grown A** Men (Hellenistic Period…
A Very Odyssean Conversation, A Modern Retelling; You Are Odysseus; and Th…
RE-AIR: Fragments of an Ethiopian King, Memnon & the African Continent in …
Conversations: Blood-Sweat Horses and Empire, Ancient Greece and China w/ …
RE-AIR: Why Did Clytemnestra Kill Cassandra, Another Q&A
The King is Broken, Battered, and Bloody… Long Live the Queen! (Aeschylus’…
Liv Reads Homer: The Odyssey (A Modern Translation!) Books 6 & 7
Kassandra, the Prophetess on the Killing Floor… (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part…
Conversations: Will Theseus Get What’s Coming to Him? Minos with Kacper Sz…
Roll Out the Red Carpet, King Agamemnon’s Home (Aeschylus’ Agamemnon Part …

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