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What Is a Rhapsode? The Ancient Greek One-Man Show That Recited 24 Books From Memory
What is a rhapsode? The ancient Greek pro who recited all 24 books of the Odyssey from memory, did the character voices, and got called an idiot for it.
What Is Nostos? The Greek Word for Going Home That Explains Why the Odyssey Outlived the Iliad
What is nostos? The Greek word for homecoming that Homer built the Odyssey on, where nostalgia comes from, and why Achilles said he chose wrong.
What Does Wifty Mean? The Insult That Can't Bring Itself to Insult Anybody
What does wifty mean? Eccentrically silly, scatterbrained, ditzy. A rare, half-Philadelphian word for airheaded that somehow refuses to insult anybody at all.
Who Is Argus in The Odyssey? The Thirty Lines That Still Wreck People 2,700 Years Later
Who is Argus in The Odyssey? Odysseus's old dog, who knows him after twenty years from a dung heap, wags his tail once, and dies. Thirty lines, still brutal.