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Paper Pilgrims - A Literary Podcast Paper Radio
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From lovers' suicides in modern Japan to the sea monsters of ancient Greece, we’re here to fill you in on all the masterpieces of world literature. Join your hosts Sneha Nagesh and Alex Breeden biweekly for dramatic readings, insightful commentary, and a dip into the writer’s local culture.
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Episode 32 — The Odyssey — Part 4
Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode.Join us for Part 4 of the Odyssey where Odysseus is finally back home in Ithaca after years away. There are several rough encounters with the Suitors, a lot of testing of loyalty, and many more tearful reunions.
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Episode 31 — The Odyssey — Part 3
Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode.Part 3 of the Odyssey bring some of its most iconic episodes: Odysseus' hoodwinking of the cyclops, the terrors of Scylla and Charybdis, the black magic of Circe, a start-studded trip through Hades, and Odysseus' arrival back in Ithaca.
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Episode 30 — The Odyssey — Part 2
Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode. Sink your teeth into Part 2 of the Odyssey, wherein Odysseus meets Princess Nausicaa in a scene of titillating nudity, a bard regales us with a raunchy tale of godly adultery, and the lotus eaters lure Odysseus' men with a tantalizing fruit.
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Episode 29 — The Odyssey — Part 1
Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to the readings for each episode. The Odyssey begins with Odysseus held captive on the island of the goddess Calypso while, back home in Ithaca, his son Telemachus sets off in search of news of his father. Telemachus reaches Sparta and there hears the story of the Trojan Horse.A thanks to LibriVox and Mark Nelson for the readings.
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Episode 28 — The Iliad — Part 4
Listen on Patreon (patreon.com/paperpilgrims) and find links to this week's and next week's readings.The finale for our four-part Iliad series. This last section is chock full of engrossing scenes, from Achilles' fight with a river god to the death of Hector, the funeral games for Patroclus, King Priam's visit to the Greek camp, and more!Thanks again to Gene Kim, our reader for the week and a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.
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Episode 27 — The Iliad — Part 3
Listen on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/paperpilgrims). Things get rollin' in part three as major warriors on both sides incur grave wounds and fall dead. And Achilles at last launches out violently onto the battlefield, resplendent in heavenly armor.A big thanks to Gene Kim, our reader for the week and a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.