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Homer · 8
Canon spine row 5. Homer — Odyssey. Era: 8th C BCE. Lang: Ancient Greek.
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Identity is forged through endurance: the self is what survives loss, disguise, and the long road home.
grief
He wept as a woman weeps when she throws herself on the body of her husband who has fallen, carried off into slavery—even so piteously did Ulysses weep.
ODYSS-RC-098Your wife spends her whole time in tears both night and day; your father never goes near the town and sleeps on the floor in front of the fire.
ODYSS-RC-132mortality
He is lying in great pain in an island; he cannot get back to his own country, for he can find neither ships nor sailors to take him over the sea.
ODYSS-RC-058self-and-identity
For a long time Ulysses was under water; but at last he got his head above water—he did not lose sight of his raft.
ODYSS-RC-064If you are made of the same stuff as your father you will be neither fool nor coward—Ulysses never broke his word nor left his work half done.
ODYSS-RC-024Teiresias bade me travel far and wide, carrying an oar, till I came to a country where the people have never heard of the sea.
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