Modern moral discourse increasingly treats recognition as action. We are taught that naming injustice is equivalent to refusing its benefits, that acknowledgment absolves participation, that awareness substitutes for consequence. This error is not new. It is ancient. Billie Eilish brought this pattern into focus during the 2026 Grammy Awards, when she declared, “No one isContinue reading “Why the Greek Myths Matter”
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Diomedes and Aeneas
In Calydon, Oeneus made his offerings to the gods, and in the counting of names he forgot Artemis (Ov. Met. 8). The first fruits rise in smoke to Zeus, Hera, the household powers, the immortals who tolerate men so long as men remember them. It is the old economy of reciprocity, the one James FrazerContinue reading “Diomedes and Aeneas”
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