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The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas

Jul 18

The Rise of History’s Greatest Emperor: An Untold Story - Alex Petkas

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The Final Warnings Caesar Refused to See - Alex Petkas

Apr 14

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"It's like Google Maps. Now I don't know my way around my own town. Something gets offloaded cognitively."

From: The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas • ▶ 1:52:04 • Jul 18, 2026

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"The Iliad is just so visceral and stark and immediate and violent and glamorous. It kind of glamorizes war, not uncritically. The Odyssey is a kind of poem by an old man written for a wider audience."

From: The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas • ▶ 1:00 • Jul 18, 2026

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"The Odyssey is kind of a story about the collapse of the patriarchy and how it gets restored — what it takes to restore that, which maybe is timely for our day. It incorporates a higher range of human experience and is maybe written for a wider audience."

From: The True Story Of The Odyssey (and why it matters) - Alex Petkas • Jul 18, 2026

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"Caesar had read this book Xenophon Cyropaedia."

From: The Final Warnings Caesar Refused to See - Alex Petkas • ▶ 11:26 • Apr 14, 2026

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