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The Odyssey Is Not About Getting Home

Why a 2,700-year-old poem keeps getting retranslated, remade, and misread, and what Homer was actually asking.
When
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Where
Times Ten Cellars
6324 Prospect Avenue
Price
$35
Doors
6:30 PM
Get Tickets$35
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What this talk is about

The Hang Theory. A lecture series by Hang Dallas.

One speaker. One big idea. One good room.

Where · Times Ten Cellars.

The Odyssey has been read for nearly three thousand years, and every generation finds something different in it. This talk asks what the poem actually says about homecoming, veterans, hospitality, and identity, and why modern translations have changed the way we read it. Dr. David Sweet, Chair of Classics and Professor at the University of Dallas, walks through the text and its afterlives, tracing how the story has been retold and why it resonates now.

How the night goes

Doors at 6:30 PM. Claim a seat, settle in.
We kick things off around 6:55 PM.
Dr. Sweet takes the floor at 7:00 PM.
Questions from the room near 7:45 PM.
Then we linger. Meet the speaker, meet each other, around 8:00 PM.
Out by 8:30 PM.

Who's speaking

David Sweet

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Times Ten Cellars · Dallas, TX

$35
Thu Oct 15
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