Bettany Hughes | The Odyssey - Odysseus’ Journey and His Women
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- Award-winning historian, author, and broadcaster, Professor Bettany Hughes presents a Ramsay Lecture titled ‘The Odyssey - Odysseus’ Journey and Odysseus’ Women’.
A few months ago - in the ‘time before Covid’ Bettany followed in the footsteps of the ancient Greek warrior and hero - wily Odysseus. Or rather, she followed his watery trail across the Eastern Mediterranean - emulating his fateful voyage home from the Battlefields of Troy, to his own island of Ithaka in Western Greece.
In recalling her own odyssey by boat and sailboat, she shares both the bigger truths we can learn from ancient stories and adventures, as well as the day-to-day truths - the quotidian clues to real life at the beginning of civilisation over 3000 years ago - to see how in so many ways that ancient world still has relevance to our own.
Including what we can learn from Odysseus’ women….
Famous world-over for her vibrant communication of the past, Bettany Hughes delivers this extraordinary exclusive presentation for the Ramsay Centre.
Professor Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her speciality is ancient and mediaeval history and culture. A Scholar at Oxford University she has taught at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and lectured at Cornell, Bristol, UCL, Maastricht, Utrecht, Manchester and Swansea. She is a Tutor for Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, a Research Fellow of King's College London and recently joined the New College of the Humanities as Professor of History.
Her first book Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore has been translated into ten languages. Her second, The Hemlock Cup, Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Writer’s Guild Award. Her latest book Istanbul - A Tale of Three Cities was shortlisted for the Runciman Award and was a Sunday Times bestseller. She has written and presented over 50 TV and radio documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Discovery, PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC World and ITV. Her programmes have now been seen by over 250 million worldwide.
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Bettany is awesome. She brings the ancient world alive through her knowledge and passion.
BEAUTIFULLY DONE! She talks essential meaning. Great indeed!! I even cried for some words that she chose and explained.thank you!
I have been fascinated by these stories as a child and I still enjoy reading about them with 35,but hearing Prof Hughes talking about them is a real pleasure.
The Odyssey, word for word, is %100 true to the letter in every detail.
She has so much wisdom, my lord @12 min alone, just incredible. I could listen to her as a student forever, granted was not my path but what an incredible woman. Thankful for her
Grazie di cuore Bettany!
Thank you Bettany from the heart!
I too have been to Mycenae, Tyrins and Sparta with my son. We too have felt the magic in the air on the hill of the Menelaion overlooking the Eurotas river. We too have touched the stones of Nestor's palace and marvelled at the sunsets over the bay of Pylos.
If you ever wish to guide an expedition to those places again, you can count on us to join you.
A very enjoyable talk. I always enjoy Bettany's material. She makes history accessable.
This is the content I am here for to experience. Insightful, enlightening, confirming information about the her/history of human - mind - kind. Thank you Dr. Hughes for all you are and do.
Bettany you are Just Great.
She is a gorgeous inside and out! Thank you for sharing your passion which is the best kind of teaching! Thank you for taking me along with you to many places and times periods!!!
Not out.
Thank you so much for hosting this series with Professor Bettany Hughes. The woman who resurrected my love for Ancient History. Just such a wonderful and profoundly positive influence on academia, and our understanding of our modern world, and through the lense of those who came before us, and still live on through us. Please bring us more of Professor Hughes !!!! I must admit I was wary of this centre and based on some of the reports in the media, but this redeems my sense of faith in the work you are doing.
Unpretentious and informative: the best of all academic flavours. Thanks Bettany!
Bettany, you are Great. It is a very deep and wonderful talk.
Bravo! Wonderfully told and fascinatingly informative, as always
Breathtaking and brilliantly explained. Thank you.
Amazing. I learned a lot by listening to Bettany. Than you for this.
You are a great woman! thank you for your existence! Kind, polite, gorgeous, clever, posh... marvelous! you are inspirational people!
Outstanding
Fantastic.
Luv the movie.. 💙💙💙💚💚💚💚
Explore the story of " Jason, The Argonaut" next time, Bettany... Luv Ancient Greek legends.. 💚💚💚💚
Brilliant Beautiful Bettany
She got fat.
Lovely interview. Great writer and historian.
Thanks for video
So much I did not know!
A very interesting and different take on Odysseus and his issues with women. He was some sort of misogynist it seems, despite his protestations that he would rather be with his wife than making love every day for years on end to other women. And Bettany's observation about the Sirens that his choice of allowing himself to hear the temptation of their call while wisely restraining himself with rope, as a universal way of dealing with the temptation of women, is something I had never thought of. In my book called "The Accidental Odyssey of Luca Lupercalo" (available in Amazon) one can read what happens when the Sirens unwound Odysseus' rope from the mast...I think Bettany would approve of what happened next.
I'm under the impression that the goddesses who sheltered Odysseus would have been highly unlikely to take "no" for an answer (neither Circe nor Calypso was a mortal woman). There is a definite power differential at work here. The epic itself does make it plain that Calypso in particular was holding Odysseus against his will, requiring a direct order from Zeus (conveyed by Athena) to release him.
In the Iliad, Helen complains to Aphrodite about her long affair with Paris that she does not want, expressing remorse and a desire to return home to her husband and children. Aphrodite promptly orders her to bed with Paris, who has just returned from the battlefield. It is clear that in Homer's world, it is not the place of mortals to resist the gods, even if they could; which implies that Odysseus was no more free to reject Circe or Calypso than Helen was to disobey Aphrodite. Certainly, neither the Illiad nor the Oddyssey condemns Helen for her affair with Paris even though she does.
More troubling is the Achaean chiefs' sexual relations with captive women described in the Illiad, in which Odysseus is not described as having participated (he seems to have left Troy without any such prisoners/concubines, even though he was undoubtedly entitled to a share of the spoils).
Human sacrifice, "to appease the gods, to negate the sins of humans which have offended the gods/God".......and the end of human sacrifice is one the the main things at the core of Christianity. The story is that Jesus was sacrificed by humans and this was allowed by God in order to take on our sins, so we no longer needed to sacrifice each other (or animals). What a great relief this must have been to people at the time.
I could never understand the "meaning" of the Crucifixion until I realised this. Such symbolism means little to most people in the modern world, where human sacrifice is simply the stuff of horror movies, and probably doesn't have the same meaning even to Christians, as it did to people 2,000 years ago, where the sacrifice of animals was not uncommon, the the sacrifice of humans was in fairly recent history and probably still occurred.
Incredible story and such a wonderful sounding and still lovely Ms. Bettany. Somehow a TikTok video gets millions of views and comments. The Western world may be doomed. There will not even be myths of our culture 2k years from now, how very sad.
I love her
good to know her
Wonderful Lady. Shes still got it!😉wink. Great storyteller too! Funny thing is bethany...i beleive he was a greek "Englishman"💂
Who the hell is Bethany?
Nice
😍😍😍👏
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damn dont know whats more interesting, her speaking about the odessey or those jingle bells
I would expect the Homeric and other early Greek epics and hymns to contain a good many authentic traditions about the culture and even history of Bronze Age Greece. Homer lived much closer to the times about which he wrote than to ours and the ancient Greeks appear to have had a bardic tradition very similar to that of the Celts.
Yes, except Homer probably never 'wrote' anything. He most likely orally composed, memorized and recited his poems in an illiterate Dark Age, and passed them on by word of mouth to other bards.
However, it was probably not too much later that the Greeks learned and adapted the Phoenicians' alphabet. Consequently Homer's epics were able to be written down and preserved before they could be forgotten.
*_27:04_**_ Don't you mean the Harpies?_*
Luv "Calypso " , The evil beautiful n sexy siren... 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wonder what Bettay thinks about the bible, and how it correlates with today??
Bettay?
Surely, people 3000 years ago enjoyed listening to singing birds and complained about rats
Neither would make an interesting epic, though.
Maybe so
Yes, she's unquestionably brilliant, big "brains."
Yes she has big 'ums and she doesn't mind flaunting them, even in Muslim countries, as evinced by her videos and I sho' don't mind looking. lol! Do a google search for big breasts British historian and boo-yaaa! She pops right up!
And she has a show called "Tea with B" - knowing full well that the "B" would be (ahem) interpreted. She might as well made title plural. "Teas(es) with Bees."
MOMMY
Bettany Hughes, For your Love of My .." ELLAS " ..I say to you... " Η Ιλιάδα του Ομήρου είναι η Βίβλος για όλους τους ανθρώπους του κόσμου που πεινούν τον Διαφωτισμό! " Νικόλαος Ευάγγελος Αναγνωστόπουλος
You are beautiful bettany i am in love with you 🌹
"I don't think the Trojan War happened." Really, Bettany? So you've spent decades studying, essentially, a figment of someone's imagination?
Well this clearly should be enough to smash the myth of the patriarchy.
But evidence is apparently all relative in today's postmodern world...
First she slavishly followed Simon Scharma's all-black wardrobe, then she turned into Tony Blair.
Bethany has a beauty to rival Helen, unfortunately she understands nothing of the meaning of this Homeric epic. Far from being a story of the struggle of men or their mind over adversity it is a telling of the fight for divine supremacy at the turning of the Kalpas. Odysseus is a vedic Deva from the sanskrit "daiwo" from which is derived "seus" or "Zeus" the "Od" translates as the pain from exertion or labour. The opposition, Kalypso meaning hidden or more relevant the Occult mysteries of the veneration of the Mater Magna. A symbol of the Mother Goddess was a Serpent, those who worshipped the Serpent were Ophites. The compound"op" appears in the name of an Ophite as Penelope who in this Homeric epic is a weaver being a metaphor for a sorceress, her suitors are those who would consort with her. Kirke another sorceress who turns the Odysseus crew into swine (not pigs) a wild boar is a symbol of the Mother Goddess, It can be read that the crew were converted by Kirke. Paris born of a flame who slays Achilles form an arrow shot in the heel, that part smitten by the Serpent from which a fire courses through the veins.
Odysseus is not a hero although Homer in his capacity as an Hellenic polytheist does represent him as such.In this Epic Odysseus is a philanderer, torturer and cold blooded murderer and also responsible for the destruction of Troy a sacred city. On the plus side this mythology depicts Odysseus as returning over the sea (divine will) which means that whatever he is or represents he will sooner or later be heading back the way he came.
Who the hell is Bethany?
You can probably make the Odyssey seem to fit any eccentric theory you wish by symbolic interpretation.
@@whitepanties2751 A ressurected and/or returning king is a common theme,these are God men pursuing the will of a creator.
Interesting, but why was it necessary to waste over 18 minutes of meanders, even seeking to justify dipping into ancient literature? Time lost for me! What I heard was great, but I wanted more. Whatever, thanks for the presentation.
How the hell and just why did this stunning woman allow herself to put on so much weight? In her earlier documentaries such as about the Spartans she was Vogue model material.
Are you listening and possibly learning? Why do you desire the beautiful, intellectual historian Bettany Hughes who enthusiastically and joyfully relates to us the Epic of Odysseus to fulfill your fantasy as a Vogue model?
It's always nice to learn from someone who is both interesting and hot but time marched on, she's already got her AARP card now, women in particular don't age well after 40 so give her a break.
She looks better for it.
Have you heard of 'menopause'?? It's what happens to all women. Very few don't put on weight. Good grief!
Total clickbait
Bettany Hughes, like every other academic historian, is a myth.
A professor of lies.