"An error which is not resisted is approved; a truth which is not defended is suppressed... He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity." – Pope Felix III "Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creatures. What you are in God's...
Homer’s Circe is still powerful, and she remains a goddess, but her authority does not precede that of Odysseus, despite her godly advantages. Inasmuch as we recognise that Penelope’s actions are informed by her marriage and her subservience to Odysseus’, so too must we acknowledge that...