A Summer with Homer (Leto s Gomerom)

A transcript of radio broadcasts by renowned French travel writer Sylvain Tesson (b. 1972), in which he engagingly discusses the Iliad and the Odyssey, suggesting a refresher on the school curriculum or a fresh look at the works of the ancient Greek thinker. “Remember the time when we were forced to read those utterly boring epics. We were schoolchildren—Homer was on the program. We wanted to play outside. We were terribly bored and gazed out the window at the sky, where the divine chariot never appeared. But what if now the time has come to soak in these golden verses, to savor these electrifying lines, eternal because unique, these noisy and furious songs, full of wisdom and such unbearable beauty that poets continue to mutter them through tears today?”