Man of Many Devices - by Santi Ruiz - Regress Studies

A guest post, on stars and roses.

The Three Wise Men, Joseph Christian Leyendecker Each week at my high school, at morning prayer, a different teacher had three consecutive days to tell us a story, read something, offer a lesson, things of that nature. One such morning prayer stuck with me and my siblings, and we asked our teacher if he remembered it. He graciously copied it down again for us, and I reprint it here. Thank you, Tim. Four things to remember. First—Homer uses epithets. Menelaus of the great war cry; Lord of men, Agamemnon; Hector, breaker of horses; Ajax, bulwark of the Achaeans. But his phrase for Odysseus…

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