Odysseus in Silicon Valley: Archaic Hero for a Contemporary World

What if the homecoming Odysseus woke up in Cupertino instead of Ithaca, and 3000 years after the Trojan War, rather than 20? What relevance would his character and story have for our wired world? It turns out the wily Greek warrior knew a lot more than we do. Stanford professor of Classics Richard Martin presented during Classes Without Quizzes, part of Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2015.

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I think Boreas is the north wind, not west. The west is Zephyrus.

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When did George Lucas become a lecturing professor?!

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Don't be so sure of that. We haven't seen the remastered version yet. Where the Cyclops blinds first