"So, Odysseus, what have you been doing with yourself the last ten years?"

"uh....professional killer."

"Oh! Good for you. It's a....growth industry."

Join us this week as we discuss nostos narratives, Springsteen cover bands, and we barely mention Christopher Nolan at all (mostly).

For more on nostos narratives...

Bonifazi, Anna. "Inquiring into Nostos and Its Cognates." American Journal of Philology 130, no. 4 (2009): 481–510.

Kelly, Adrian. "Nostos in Three Moves or Five Stages: A Story Pattern in Early Greek Epos." Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic 9 (2025): 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688487-00901003.