An Odysseus for our age

and now civilization would crumble.

Hubris in this story was not limited to Odysseus, but to all Greeks.

The Greeks cleverly exploited the Trojans’ piety by declaring the Trojan horse a gift to Athena.

To the suitors, Zeus’s law requiring hospitality for strangers was antiquated and pointless. One traditional rationale, that any stranger could be a god continue reading …