A transcript of radio programs by the well-known French writer and traveler Sylvain Tesson (born 1972), in which he fascinatingly discusses the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey,” offering either to refresh your memory of the school curriculum or to look anew at the works of the ancient Greek thinker. “Remember that time when we were forced to read those most boring epics. We were schoolboys—Homer was on the syllabus. We wanted to play outside. We were terribly bored and looked through the window at the sky, where the divine chariot never appeared. And what if now it’s time to feed on these golden verses, to enjoy these electrified lines—eternal, because unique—these noisy and furious songs full of wisdom and such unbearable beauty that poets even today continue to mutter them through tears?”