Oh what a find! Idly browsing through Vinnies' bookshelves, I picked up this treasure: "Why Homer Matters". He certainly matters to me, and I immediately picked it up, clutched it to my chest, and hastily proceeded to the check-out counter. Two dollars later it was all mine. Oh what a find!
And I'm not talking about Homer, the earnest American classicist in "Never on Sunday", but Homer, the ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek and still speak to us today of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, humanity, its frailty and the pains of existence because Homer tells us how we became who we are. "We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece."
I'm already totally "over-booked" this month and next, but I may sneak in a few pages of "Why Homer Matters" because he matters to me.
