Odysseus & Pride

2025-01-18

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My friend LL and I read the beginning of Homer’s Odyssey, about the man Odysseus, and discuss how he might be prototypical and what we can learn from his story. He is portrayed as experienced, wily, learning, and especially suffering and pining for his home. One decision of pride also causes him much suffering (almost destruction for him and for, ultimately, the rest of his men) out on the barren sea, tossed from one very different alien place to another. Please comment below, and check us out a...

My friend LL and I read the beginning of Homer’s Odyssey, about the man Odysseus, and discuss how he might be prototypical and what we can learn from his story. He is portrayed as experienced, wily, learning, and especially suffering and pining for his home. One decision of pride also causes him much suffering (almost destruction for him and for, ultimately, the rest of his men) out on the barren sea, tossed from one very different alien place to another.

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