Category: Odysseus

Athena’s Challenge to Modern Mantras

Today, it seems that we are in a world where facts and truth are no longer important; how we feel seems to be the key criterion for establishing whether something is true or not. So we hear the expression “my truth” everywhere, meaning that it is irrefutable because it is “my truth,” no matter what…


Fatherlessness in Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

When we think of Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey,” written in the late eighth or early seventh century B.C., we think of the monsters. We picture the raging Cyclops hurling stones at Odysseus’s ship, each massive rock sending up towers of spray from the glinting surface of the Mediterranean. Or we think of the swirling…