EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is May twenty fifth, twenty twenty sixth, and my guest is Ito Havroni, my colleague here at Shalem College. Every year since the college opened, thirteen years ago, Edo has been teaching the Iliad by Homer. And the Odyssey by Armour.

To our students. This episode is the first episode of the Econ Talk Book Club on the Iliad. I encourage you to read the book. We'll be reading the Fagels translation. But there are many to choose from. And I want listeners who may be listening with children that this this episode will likely contain

Adult themes, so you may want to screen this episode accordingly. Edo, welcome to Econ Talk. Thank you. Read the Iliad and why did you read it? Um it didn't start from reading the Iliad itself, it started from, you know, uh starting to be familiar with the themes, with the stories, of course, of the Trojan War or the Trojan

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