A Bibliophile's Odyssey: Reading The Great Books

A Bibliophile's Odyssey: Reading The Great Books

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Great Books Ep 84. Euripides - Helen. What If Everything You Knew Was a Lie?
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Great Books Ep 84. Euripides - Helen. What If Everything You Knew Was a Lie?

Finding out that they fought for over ten years for a fake Helen was shocking to the Greeks. How do we cope with life-altering changes in beliefs and the unsettling nature of reality?

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“What can I think or say? For after my previous troubles, this is a fresh piece of ill-luck I hear, if, indeed, after recovering my wife from Troy and bringing her hither, and putting her for safety in the cave, I am then to find another woman living here with the same name as my wife.”

~ ‘Helen’ by Euripides (Edward P…

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