Boyz 2 Men: How Telemachus Grows Up

<p>The <em>Odyssey </em>is a very different poem from the <em>Iliad </em>in many ways, but in one way it picks up right where the <em>Iliad </em>leaves off: with the fallout of war and the journey to re-integrate soldiers back into the civil society they came from. Today we begin Odysseus' long journey home, which actually begins at the end and works backward, starting with his son Telemachus' journey to grow to manhod without his dad around. </p> <p>Pre-order my new book, Light of the Mind, Light of the World: <a href="https://a.co/d/2QccOfM">https://a.co/d/2QccOfM</a></p> <p>Subscribe to my joint Substack with Andrew Klavan (no relation): <a href="https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com">https://thenewjerusalem.substack.com</a></p> <p>Subscribe to be in the mailbag: <a href="https://rejoiceevermore.substac.com">https://rejoiceevermore.substack.com</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Stephen C. Meyer, <em>The Return of the God Hypothesis</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/gbIOQSY">https://a.co/d/gbIOQSY</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Owen Barfield, <em>Worlds Apart</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/1eVagdy">https://a.co/d/1eVagdy</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Owen Barfield, <em>Saving the Appearances</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/ioLqsnf">https://a.co/d/ioLqsnf</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">C.S. Lewis, <em>The Abolition of Man</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/e3QeBte">https://a.co/d/e3QeBte</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">C.S. Lewis, <em>Miracles</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/g9hpjq5">https://a.co/d/g9hpjq5</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Victor Stenger, <em>God: The Failed Hypothesis</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/gmGwcoW">https://a.co/d/gmGwcoW</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">James Hannam, <em>God's Philosophers</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/625AA62">https://a.co/d/625AA62</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ed Feser, <em>Aristotle's Revenge</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/bPGnKuf">https://a.co/d/bPGnKuf</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Augustine, <em>Confessions</em>: <a href="https://a.co/d/99APz4T">https://a.co/d/99APz4T</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Augustine, <em>De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber</em>: <a href="https://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_incompiuto/index.htm">https://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_incompiuto/index.htm</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>