The daffodils have begun to flower. Narcissus emerges from the ground. The Greeks named the flower for a boy who could not look away. The myth remembers something about spring that the botanical name preserves without explaining: that the eye, given something sufficiently beautiful, stops. The will follows the gaze. The season announces itself throughContinue reading “Narcissus”
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The Use of Myth
Hesiod stands at the beginning. He is the first to write down stories that had been circulating for centuries. His account is not a moral arc in the way the Hebrew tradition would later tell its story. Hesiod is part farmer’s almanac and part chronicler. This is how the seasons work, and this is whoContinue reading “The Use of Myth”
Why the Greek Myths Matter
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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