The Swim Brief
The Swim Brief
Chris DeSantis
Leadership, Responsibility, and Shame in The Odyssey
35 minutes Posted Jul 31, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail What can The Odyssey teach us about leadership when every available choice carries consequences? Chris is joined by Juliet Seuss for a different kind of episode: a conversation about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the questions it raises about responsibility, power, guilt, and shame. They examine whether Odysseus accepts responsibility for the people who follow him, how Penelope exercises power within an unjust system, and what Sinon’s story reveals about the shame socie...