Great Books Ep 41. The Odyssey Book 13. From Stone Ships to Shattered Beliefs: When Good Intentions Meet Unforeseen Repercussions

People who are over-friendly and help others a lot without thinking of themselves sometimes take a U-turn and decide to never help anyone else when they encounter a shocking event.

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When earth-encircling Neptune heard this, he went to Scheria where the Phaeacians live, and stayed there till the ship, which was making rapid way, had got close in. Then he went up to it, turned it into stone, and drove it down with the flat of his hand so as to root it in the ground.

~ The Odyssey - Book XIII (Samuel Bu…