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Mentioned in 22 episodes
Iliad
Book • 2010
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Mentioned in 22 episodes
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as the great poet whose work casts a shadow over other accounts of the Trojan War.


Dominic Sandbrook

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6. Troy
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alongside the Odyssey, noting Virgil's Aeneid is almost in competition with these epics.

Charlotte Higgins

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How Greece Shaped Rome with Mary Beard
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when comparing the length of the Mahabharata to other epics.


Leo Mirani

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Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
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as a source where Hera plays a huge role as a protagonist on the side of the Greeks.


Ellie Mackin-Roberts

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Hera: Queen of the Gods
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in relation to a piece discussing its impact on modern warriors.

Jack Fowler

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Zeldin’s Drive to Deregulate and the Iliad’s Relevance Today
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in comparison to Hesiod, highlighting their similarities and differences in style and approach to mythology.

Deacon Harrison Garlick

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A Discussion on Hesiod's Theogony
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as one of Homer's epic poems of the Trojan War.

Jonathan Silver

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Ido Hevroni on Teaching Homer in Wartime
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as one of the authors who describes Hera as the foster daughter of Tethys and Oceanus.

Natalie Haynes

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Hera
Mentioned by the speaker as a well-known epic poem in Western culture, in comparison to the Shahnameh.

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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, Part 1
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in reference to his translation of the Iliad.

Deacon Harrison Garlick

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Iliad: Book 1 | The Rage of Achilles
Mentioned by Jacob Alley as a book that has survived throughout the ages and is still read today.

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Ep. 282 - How to Use The Great Ideas in Your Commonplace Books w/Dr. Jacob Allee
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regarding Aeneas' role in the Iliad.


Edith Hall

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The Aeneid
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when discussing the time Athens began to take shape.


Dan Snow

The Acropolis
Mentioned by Michael Cosmopoulos when talking about the tradition that Homer composed it in the 8th century.

Michael B. Cosmopoulos, "The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mentioned when discussing oaths in the Greco-Roman world.

443: Talmudic Matthew — Oaths
Mentioned by Edith Hall as the core of the entire curriculum for every single ancient schoolboy.

Alexandria: The Library
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when comparing the length of the Mahabharata to other epics.


Leo Mirani

Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
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, referring to the translations by Addison and Dryden.

Jeffery Rosen

How the Classics Inspired America's Founders
Mentioned as the earliest source where Cassandra appears in literature.

Cassandra: Prophet Of The Modern World?
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as already a scholarly endeavor in Alexandria in the first century BC.

Dirk Jongkind

S5E4: How did the early church handle differences between manuscripts?


