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Jul 2019
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EPISODE 9 TELEMACHUS, MENELAUS, and HE...

JEFF WRIGHT
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STORY  49:47 listening time Athena sends Telemachus off on his first ever “road trip” – to Pylos and to Sparta – in the hopes that it might help the milquetoast young man to “grow a pair”.  Telemachus meets some familiar characters from Iliad:  windy old king Nestor, blustery Menelaus, and the “enigmatic-as-ever” Helen of Troy...

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