Great Books Ep 46. The Odyssey Book 18. Character and Company: Is It Worth Being Virtuous in a Corrupt Society?

Good individuals caught in bad company can be swept up in the consequences meant for the whole.

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“see how they are wasting the estate, and doing dishonour to the wife, of one who is certain to return some day, and that, too, not long hence. Nay, he will be here soon; may heaven send you home quietly first..”

~ The Odyssey - Book XVIII (Samuel Butler Translation. p285)

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In Book 18 of The O…