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Bonus Episode: Glorious Exploits
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In this bonus episode, Naomi interviews Ferdia Lennon about his 2024 novel, Glorious Exploits, a book about tragedy and comedy in the wake of the Sicilian Expedition—Athens’ disastrous attempt to seize Sicily in 415–413 BCE, which resulted in their utter defeat. They talk about the sensory experience of visiting the ancient theater and quarries in Syracuse, the musicality of tragedy and of Ferdia’s novel, theater in Thucydides and Plato, the cyclicality of victory and loss, and Euripides’ Trojan Women.
Guest:
Ferdia Lennon is the author of Glorious Exploits, a Sunday Times bestseller and winner of Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. The novel was adapted for BBC Radio 4 and translation rights have been sold in more than 20 languages. Born and raised in Dublin, Ferdia holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia.
You can watch the full interview with Ferdia here: