This Episode is Epic ft. Sophus Helle
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The podcast is part of the oral tradition, and joining us to talk about ancient epics, living texts in dead languages, Babylonian Pride parades, and how all of this relates to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror is writer, translator, and cultural historian Sophus Helle.
Show notes:
- Sophus’ website
- Electronic Babylonian Library
- Babylonian Myths, Sophus Helle
- Critical Antiquities, including Human: Babylonian Reflections on Labour, Sophus Helle
- Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, J.R.R. Tolkien
- Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley
- The Complete Mahabharata (online)
- The Mahabharata (Penguin Classics)
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation, C. Luke Soucy
- Query, Zilla Novikov
- The Ur-Pisode: The Queer Heart of the Epic of Gilgamesh, ft. Julian Gunn
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