Guest:  Emily Austin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and author of Grief and the Hero: the Futility of Longing in the Iliad. Her area of expertise is emotion in the ancient world. Show Notes:  Greek concepts of Hell [Repeating patterns of grief giving rise to anger [Digging into the character of Odysseus [Alice Oswald's Memorial as powerful excavation of Homer [Contemporary echoes of Electra [Jonathan Shay on Homer, PTSD, and Vietnam [ Professor Austin's Odyssey translation recommendation:  Robert Fitzgerald