3.37: What's the Plan Here?

Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast

Show Notes

This week, we review and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (機動戦士ガンダムΖΖ) episode 39 - “The Second Coming of Sarasa” (サラサ再臨), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the story of the Trojan Horse.

- An outline of the Epic Cycle poems with English translations of their surviving fragments, by Hugh Evelyn-White.

- An annotated version of the Evelyn-White translations that offers additional context about the characters involved as well as the back story of the fragments.

- Translations of the surviving summaries of the the Epic Cycle poems, by Gregory Nagy. The summaries are attributed to one 'Proclus' about whom we know very little.

- Public domain translation of The Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler.

- Public domain translation of The Aeneid, translated by John Dryden.

- Public domain translation of The Posthomerica (or The Fall of Troy) by Quintus Smyrnaeus (Quintus of Smyrna), translated by A. S. Way.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for the White Base, including the anecdote about a Clover exec saying it looked like a rocking horse.

- Jisho.org page for "Trojan Horse" in Japanese.

- How many days happen in the Iliad, anyway?

- The Library (or Bibliotheca) of Apollodorus (or Pseudo-Apollodorus) and including the reconstructed Epitome covering the Trojan war, translated by Sir James George Frazer.

- Internet archive e-book version of 'The Library.'

- A history of the surviving text of The Library:

Diller, Aubrey. “The Text History of the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus.” Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 66, 1935, pp. 296–313. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/283301. Accessed 2 June 2021.

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