Battling All the Way Home - by Palladium Editors
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Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means.
Ronnie Robertson/Draken Harald Hårfagre This article by Stephen Pimentel was published at Palladium Magazine on August 27, 2026. Become a PALLADIUM member today! You will receive our beautiful quarterly print edition and help support our non-profit publication. Homer’s Odyssey, like the man it describes, has “many ways.” Already in its introduction or proem, the poem raises its themes, including intelligence, politics, suffering, and ultimately homecoming. Odysseus is a paradigm case of man dislocated from civilization, defined not by his rank or even his martial virtues such as his…
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