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Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ and the Future of Education (opens the original)
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Modern education has become remarkably good at answering secondary questions. What skills do students need? What information should they acquire? How should their performance be measured? A curriculum built around standardized testing can tell you whether a student can solve a quadratic equation or identify a topic sentence. It has little to say about what that student should love, or what kind of life is worth living. The ancient world began with a more fundamental question: What kind of person
Why Odysseus Must Descend Into the Underworld (opens the original)
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In Book 11, near the center of the Odyssey, Odysseus gives us the first account of resurrection. It involves a descent to the realm of the dead. All mortal men go on this journey. Only a few have ever come back. It becomes a standard pattern in epic literature. Odysseus’s descent, traditionally called the katabasis, may initially seem like another fantastic adventure alongside Cyclopes, witches, and monsters. Yet its position in the poem suggests something more important. Odysseus cannot simply
Is Seeing Believing? Homer and the Recognition of Reality. (opens the original)
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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!”—Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion.” The Romans had a saying: “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”—“Untruthful in one thing, untruthful in everything.” English common law subscribed to the same idea. If a witness lies about one detail, the courts can reject the witness’s entire testimony. The legal courts are not the only venue in which we can see judgment in action, however. The “Odyssey” is filled with disguises and deceptions. Gods a
The Stranger at the Door: Homer on Hospitality and Civilization (opens the original)
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One of the simplest tests of civilization in Homer’s “Odyssey” is what happens when a stranger arrives at the door. The Greek institution of “xenia”—the reciprocal bond between host and guest—is not merely good manners. It is a sacred obligation protected by Zeus himself, “Zeus Xenios,” guardian of strangers. Throughout the “Odyssey,” Homer asks his audience to judge individuals and societies by how they treat those who arrive dependent, unknown, and even incapable of repaying kindness. The stra
The Education of Desire (opens the original)
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning The usual answer is this: Paris abducted Helen, and the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover her. But Homer’s account invites us to look deeper. Behind the human conflict lies an earlier act of judgment that determined the course of history. Before Helen, there was the Judgment of Paris. Homer refers to this little episode in the “Iliad,” 24: 22–30. Asked to dec
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