Homer

"You can even see this contrast occur between different classical texts themselves. Homer's heroic Odysseus becomes Virgil's "cruel Ulysses." The guile and occasional sadism that were celebrated by the Greeks become antithetical to the imperial Roman ideal of the loyal citizen."

"Even if it weren't one of my all time favorite poems, I would be remiss if I didn't start this "project" (a rather generous term) with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, beginning as it does with some of the hardest opening lines of all time (the rawest, in my estimation, since Homer's invocation of the M"

"they did have a lot of obviously read Shakespeare works and like ancient classics (homer and Aristophanes) but most books on the shelves were just YA fiction"

"Start seeing your life as a Homerian odyssey. Look around for living symbols and find synchronicity in every interaction. Everytime you blink, an archetype dies and resurrects in the corner of your vision."

"It's a timeless archetype (Homer, fairytales, every ballet and opera under the sun) for a reason"