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TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

De: Jeff Wright
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Trojan War: The Podcast is a serialized telling of the stories that together comprise the epic story of the Trojan War. From The Judgement of Paris through The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships to Achilles’ Heel and Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts, this epic story has it all! Each podcast episode features one self-contained episode in the overall story arc, followed by about fifteen minutes of conversation and commentary on the compelling and provocative contemporary ideas that emerge from the stories. The tone of Jeff Wright, the storyteller, is modern, engaging, and informed. He is comic, occasionally irreverent, and always entertaining.Jeff Wright Mundial
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  • EPISODE 21 “ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST preview”

    EPISODE 21 “ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST preview”
    Sep 13 2025
    Odyssey: The Podcast picks up right where Trojan War: The Podcast leaves off: with the city of Troy a smoldering ruin, and Odysseus staring out across the wine-dark sea, readying to guide his surviving 600 soldiers back home to Ithaka. The fourteen episodes of Odyssey: The Podcast follow the identical format of Trojan War: The Podcast--an entertaining story (this time grounded in Homer's Odyssey) followed by Post Chapter Commentaries. Your storyteller and traveling companion, Jeff Wright, remains the same! In 2020 Odyssey: The Podcast was awarded the prestigious FORUM PRIZE by the Society For Classical Studies, who proclaimed it the best public-facing contribution to the classics, in any medium, produced in the previous year. You can listen to all fourteen episodes of Odyssey: The Podcast from its website, odysseythepodcast.com, or direct from your favorite podcast listening platform. Enjoy, Jeff Wright
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    41 m
  • EPISODE 1 “THE APPLE OF DISCORD”

    EPISODE 1 “THE APPLE OF DISCORD”
    Sep 5 2016
    ODYSSEY: THE PODCAST - my 14 episode, 24 hour sequel to Trojan War: The Podcast - is now recorded and waiting for you. Subscribe through your usual podcast provider, or go to odysseythepodcast.com! THE STORY: (40 minutes) Zeus, King of the Gods, hosts a wedding. An uninvited guest crashes, bringing an unwelcome gift. In mere moments, all Hades breaks loose. And the wheels of Western culture’s most awesome epic - the Trojan War - are set in motion. THE COMMENTARY: DID THE TROJAN WAR REALLY "HAPPEN"? (9 minutes; begins at 40:00) In this episode of post-story commentary I spend some time talking about how the Trojan War epic, though over three thousand years old, remains deeply embedded in contemporary culture. I note how we are all familiar with the names (Achilles, Helen of Troy, Hector), the images (The Trojan Horse), and the concepts (“the face that launched a thousand ships”; “beware of Greeks bearing gifts”; “his Achilles’ Heel”) that originate in this epic. Then I review the “history” of the story: from a war that may or may not have happened circa 1250 BCE, through five hundred years of post-war “oral tradition”, up to Homer’s written account – The Iliad - in 700 BCE, and on to the contributions of further storytellers, including the Roman poet Virgil in 19 BCE. I confess to how wonderfully liberating it is for a storyteller like me to be free to sort through the myriad sources, stories and texts (many of which contradict each other), and then “glue them together” into one big, cohesive, entertaining plot. I conclude the post-story commentary by definitively answering the burning question of whether the Trojan War ever really happened. Hope you have fun. Jeff RELATED IMAGES
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    49 m
  • EPISODE 2 “THE TORCH”

    EPISODE 2 “THE TORCH”
    Sep 4 2016
    THE STORY:  (54 minutes) A queen is visited by a terrifying nightmare. Priests discern what the nightmare means. And a king is faced with a soul-wrenching dilemma: “do I kill my child, or allow my city to burn?” And the king’s decision …? Well, you’ll have to listen in to see how that turns out. THE COMMENTARY:  FATE VS. FREE WILL (16 minutes; begins at 54:00) In this episode of post-story commentary I explore the role of “Fate” in the Trojan War epic. I observe that most of us listening to this podcast (in the 21st century) like to believe that we have some sort of control or agency over our lives. We like to believe that we each have, to a large degree, freedom to choose how our lives will transpire – sort of like being the authors of our own “choose your own adventure” lives. I contrast this belief with the understanding of Bronze Age Greek culture (where our epic story takes place). These people did not believe in agency or free will (except in minor day to day questions, like “will I have fish or lamb for dinner this evening?”). But on the big questions of how one’s life – one’s “adventure” if you will – was going to unfold, well, the Bronze Age Greeks did not believe in free will. Rather, each person (and possibly even the Olympian gods too) was subject to an unavoidable fate or destiny. I cite the famous story of Oedipus to illustrate how this inexorable fate would have been understood by the characters in our story. And I conclude by exploring how the people that we are going to meet in this awesome epic still managed to find meaning, dignity and purpose in a universe governed by Fate.   I think you will find the conversation educational, but mostly just a lot of FUN! Jeff RELATED IMAGES
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    1 h y 10 m
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So cool
Love how it describes the battles and the heroes fighting and how fate or deadly destiny is defined

Amazing

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I'm a huge fan of anything Ancient Mediterranean especially stories related to and or involving the Greeks. The author explains everything is a simple way and narrates the multiple events thoroughly and very descriptive to give the listener an idea of what is actually going on.

Pretty Good

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an immersive and informative tale of heroes and gods and a story about storytelling

get in, listener, we're going to sack Troy

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This is a fantastic podcast. The story of the Illiad brought to life by a professional story teller. If you have ever read, or never read the Illiad you'll get 10x more from this podcast than you would get from any other form of summary, cliff notes, or commentary.
There are so many interesting back stories to really bring to life the whole world Homer built. Jeff Wright also has a podcast on the Odyssey delivered in this same style. Both podcasts are top 10.

An absolute Must Listen - all the back stories!

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