Wheaton College Core Book Podcast

Wheaton College

The Core Book Podcast has been created to provide accompaniment, community, and nerdy-joy to readers of Wheaton College's Core Book. Core Book is Wheaton's community reading program associated with our Christ at the Core curriculum. Each year, we select a book and invite students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, neighbors near and far—all communities associated with the college—to join in. Believing that we read better in community, we create materials to support readers and plan scholarly and creative events to bring readers together. Find more information at https://www.wheaton.edu/core-book/. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English. She is joined in this first season by Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, and Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, for a 10 episode read through of the 2024-2025 Core Book, Homer's Odyssey. This podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Do you have questions about The Odyssey that you'd like the Core Book Podcast to consider? Send your questions to core.studies@wheaton.edu by December 1, and we'll consider them for our question and response episode, the last of our season.

Episodes

  1. 12/06/2024

    Wheaton College Core Book Podcast, Odyssey Episode 9 – The Whole Community Enjoys a Banquet

    Content Warning: mention of suicide 5:35, discussion of sexual assault 24:58-27:29 IX    Integrating Epic and Faith – Dislocation, Homesickness – Weeping on the Shores of Babylon – Ethical Posture of Humility – Costly Hospitality – Stop the Violence – Why Christians Should Read the Odyssey – A Text in Common – Genesis 19:1-22 – Classics and Christian Thought – Classics and the English Poetic Tradition – Reading Together, Poems on Food Pantry Shelves – Golden Verses (Once Again) – Heavenly Book Club   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  C.S. Lewis' Introduction to De Incarnatione (On the Incarnation) by St. Athanasius: https://credomag.com/2022/07/preface-to-on-the-incarnation-by-c-s-lewis/  Aldhelm's treatise on poetry: Epistola ad Acircium: https://bookshop.org/p/books/aldhelm-the-prose-works-michael-lapidge/11843634?ean=9781843841999  The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care edited by Anne Basting, Maureen Toweywas, and Ellie Rose: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-penelope-project-an-arts-based-odyssey-to-change-elder-care-ellie-rose/12542184?ean=9781609384135   Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/    Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  2. 11/22/2024

    Odyssey Episode 8 – The Time Had Come

    Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault 17:48-18:30, 20:18-20:39, 26:28-29:00 VIII Books 21-24 – Archery Contest – The Bow's Revenge, Bad Archers – Sons Supplant Fathers – The Bow and the Lyre, Instruments of Truth – Tactical Stripping – Restitution and Vengeance – A Poet Spared, a Priest Slaughtered – The Serving Women – Jarring Transition – Another Test (For the Early-Recognition Thesis) – The Bed – Facing Forward – Endings – Storytelling – Back to the Underworld – Revenge Cycles and Requirements for Peace   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: https://bookshop.org/p/books/invisible-man-ralph-ellison/6697209?ean=9780679732761  Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston: https://bookshop.org/p/books/their-eyes-were-watching-god-zora-neale-hurston/18554113?ean=9780060838676  Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison: https://bookshop.org/p/books/song-of-solomon-toni-morrison/285447?ean=9781400033423    Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/    Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith, Zoe Foster-Whiddon Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  3. 11/15/2024

    Odyssey Episode 7 – But I Spin Schemes

    Content Warning: death of a dog: 19:53-20:15, examination of slavery in the ancient world 20:16-23:42 VII     Books 17-20 – Tension, Recognition, Condemnation – Lion Among Fawns, Revenge Reciprocity – Entertaining Gods Unawares – Telemachus Sneezes – Faithful Argos – Slavery and Arete – A Boxing Match – Athena Hardens Amphinomus's Heart – Odysseus's Scar – Odussomai and a Boarhunt – When and What Does Penelope Know? – Irony Over Psychology – A Fugitive Prophesies – Telemachus Finally Gives a Good Speech   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250  Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867   Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498   Erich Auerbach's "Odysseus' Scar" from Mimesis: https://classic.westmont.edu/~fisk/Articles/OdysseusScar.html   Argos: The Story of Odysseus as Told by His Loyal Dog by R. K. Hardy: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/argos-ralph-hardy?variant=32128384630818   Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/     Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&   Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  4. 11/08/2024

    Odyssey Episode 6 – The Land I Love

    VI    Book 13-16 – Complication in Homecoming – Questioning Athena – Father-Son Parallels – Why the Phaecians Are Punished, or Divine Contradiction – Fully Rendered Deceptions – Purposes of Storytelling – Fellowship – The Hospitable Golden Mean – Theoclymenus – Oh My Swineherd – A Tale of Two Similes – Eumaeus Like a Father – Telamachus and Odysseus Like Eagles – Helen, Arete, Penelope Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250  Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867   Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498   The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey by Alexander Loney: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&   An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn: https://bookshop.org/p/books/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-daniel-mendelsohn/8631679?ean=9780345806215   The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood: https://bookshop.org/p/books/penelopiad-margaret-atwood/7183907?ean=9780571239498   The Odyssey: A Stage Version by Derek Walcott: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-a-stage-version-homer/10384209?ean=9780374523879   Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks: https://bookshop.org/p/books/father-comes-home-from-the-wars-parts-1-2-3-suzan-lori-parks/10469736?ean=9781559365000   Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/     Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/  https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead  https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading    Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&   Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  5. 11/01/2024

    Odyssey Episode 5 – To the House of Death

    Content Warning: mention of suicide (7:32-7:40) V    Books 11-12 – Katabasis – Why So Many Ghosts? – The List of Women – A Break in the Telling – Moving on to the Men – Agamemnon's Questionable Advice – Achilles, a Perspective on Glory – Shades and Sons – Responsibility and Lies – Scylla, a Rock and a Hard Place – Hearing the Sirens – Cattle and the Tale's End   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  Bird Odyssey by Barbara Hamby: https://bookshop.org/p/books/bird-odyssey-barbara-hamby/9731408?ean=9780822965251  Meadowlands by Louise Gluck: https://bookshop.org/p/books/meadowlands-louise-gluck/7779500?ean=9780880015066    Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/    Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  6. 10/25/2024

    Odyssey Episode 4 — Visitors, Guest-friends, and Those in Need

    IV    Books 9-10 — The Golden Verses — The Most Exemplary Story(teller) — Identification with Trickery — The Cyclops, Monstrous Hospitality — Cicones — Acts of Self-Naming — Return and Rejection by Aeolus — Cannibalism and Eating — Circe — Why Pigs? — Needed Respite — Confronting Death — Elpenor   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250  Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867   Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498   Circe by Madeline Miller: https://bookshop.org/p/books/circe-madeline-miller/15276582?ean=9780316556323     Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/     Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/  https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead  https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading    Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&     Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  7. 10/18/2024

    Odyssey Episode 3 – Show Me the Way to Town

    Content Warning: brief discussion of sexual abuse (6:18-8:22) III Books 5-8 – Visions of the Domestic Life – Since the Nymph No Longer Pleased – Structural Temptations – Fading Away, the Man Without Land – The Marriage Plot Thickens – Similes – Despair to Their Enemies, a Joy to all Their Friends – Arete – Sleep, the Order in the Text – Men at Peace: Poetry, Presents, Sports – Quarrel Between Achilles and Odysseus – Aphrodite and Ares – The Trojan Horse – Weeping as a Woman – Prophecy Against the Phaecians   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-gareth-hinds/6389599?ean=9780763642686    Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/    Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  8. 10/11/2024

    Odyssey Episode 2 – You Call to Mind How Much We Suffered

    II    Books 1-4 – Why not Odysseus? – Zeus's Complaint, Complex Causation – Paradigms for Homecoming – Ithaca as It Ought to Be – Telemachus Tries on Authority – Succession – Noblesse Oblige – Suffering and Storytelling – Nostos – Repetition Reasons – The Problem of Helen – What is a Functioning Marriage and Home?   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250 Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer/15509341?ean=9780140268867  Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  Nobody: A Hymn To the Sea by Alice Oswald: https://bookshop.org/p/books/nobody-a-hymn-to-the-sea-alice-oswald/13134053?ean=9781324021780    Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu   Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/    Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College  https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/ https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading   Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

  9. 10/04/2024

    Odyssey Episode 1 – Find the Beginning

    I    First Impressions – The Proem – Odysseus Polytropos, a complicated man – Translation Choices – The Trojan War – Historical and Geographic Concerns – Sing for Our Time Too – Poetic Voice, Meta-storytelling – The Poem's Central Concerns – The Start of Something Great   Works mentioned: Emily Wilson's Odyssey Translation:  https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-francis-caulfeild/18217775?ean=9780393356250  Robert Fagles's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-odyssey-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-homer Richmond Lattimore's Odyssey Translation: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-iliad-of-homer-homer/18775243?ean=9780226470498  Eva Brann, Homeric Moments: https://bookshop.org/p/books/homeric-moments-clues-to-delight-in-reading-the-odyssey-and-the-iliad-eva-brann/8918756?ean=9780967967578  Epic: The Musical: https://www.epicthemusical.com/    Do you have questions about the Odyssey? Email us at core.studies@wheaton.edu Find more about what we're doing this year with Core Book at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/the-liberal-arts-at-wheaton-college/christ-at-the-core-liberal-arts-at-wheaton/core-book/   Host: Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467466196/in-thought-word-and-seed/  https://www.ivpress.com/balm-in-gilead  https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781451470321/The-Future-of-the-Word-An-Eschatology-of-Reading    Conversation Partners: Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Wheaton College  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethics-of-revenge-and-the-meanings-of-the-odyssey-9780190909673?cc=us&lang=en&    Credits: The Core Book podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is  a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Find out more about the program--and all the Aequitas themes, including Global Public Health; Sustainability; Politics, Philosophy, and Economics; and Urban Leadership--at www.wheaton.edu/aequitas.  Executive Producer: Emma Smith Music: Tristen Guzman Art: Lily Groves and Cecilia Waidatt Audio Editing: Emma Smith Sassy Student Summarizers: Zoe Foster-Whiddon, Houston Heinrich, Emma Smith Special thanks to the Wheaton College Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts, Bailey Garrison, Mariah Sray, Linda Bretz, Sherry Austriaco, Rebecca Larson, Les Barker, and Wheaton College Marketing and Communications.

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The Core Book Podcast has been created to provide accompaniment, community, and nerdy-joy to readers of Wheaton College's Core Book. Core Book is Wheaton's community reading program associated with our Christ at the Core curriculum. Each year, we select a book and invite students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, neighbors near and far—all communities associated with the college—to join in. Believing that we read better in community, we create materials to support readers and plan scholarly and creative events to bring readers together. Find more information at https://www.wheaton.edu/core-book/. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Associate Professor of English. She is joined in this first season by Dr. Benjamin Weber, Associate Professor of English, and Dr. Alexander Loney, Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages, for a 10 episode read through of the 2024-2025 Core Book, Homer's Odyssey. This podcast is a production of the Core Book program at Wheaton College in partnership with the Aequitas Fellows Program in Public Humanities and Arts. Aequitas PHA is a creative studio and scholarship program that brings together four-year cohorts of undergraduate student artists, theater makers, musicians, writers, and scholarly nerds to build publicly engaged projects in the humanities and arts. Do you have questions about The Odyssey that you'd like the Core Book Podcast to consider? Send your questions to core.studies@wheaton.edu by December 1, and we'll consider them for our question and response episode, the last of our season.

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