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Greek Odyssey episode 4

Greek Odyssey episode 4

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Greek Odyssey episode 4: This week Joanna meets the people and discovers places in the mountainous region of northern Greece. Here the hills are alive with ancient stories and legends. Some familiar, others long since gone untold. Where better to start than a climb up Mount Olympus, the country’s highest peak. Here, the ancient Greeks believed that the gods had […]

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Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey

Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey

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Gods and Monsters – Homer’s Odyssey: Virginia Woolf said that Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey was ‘alive to every tremor and gleam of existence’. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the greatest story ever told. Now British poet Simon Armitage goes on

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