The Odyssey: Homer's Retort to Current U.S. Policy - Image Journal

‘Fitzgerald’s Iliad and Odyssey are also on my shelf. With warring so much the rage these days, you’d think I’d turn next to The Iliad. But instead it’s The Odyssey that I reached for—since it’s about how we should live instead of how we do.

Restoration is The Odyssey‘s theme. Though the title word has come to mean adventurous wandering, the poem’s whole thrust is really toward restoring Odysseus to his rightful place at home.’

The Odyssey: Homer's Retort to Current U.S. Policy - Image Journal