…the name Odysseus is? I said, no, I don't. And he said, well, it really comes from the two words, Udais, meaning nobody, and Zeus, meaning God, and that Odysseus is really a symbol of creation of man out of nothing. Well, I mean, this is exactly the…

…tragedians it just means disaster, but in Homer it means the state of mind leading to disaster. And Arte was a daughter of Zeus, whom Zeus, for his own strange and practical joke-like purposes, used to let loose on people. I mean, Arte was the person…

…just means disaster, but in Homer it means the state of mind leading to disaster. And Arte was a daughter of Zeus, whom Zeus, for his own strange and practical joke-like purposes, used to let loose on people. I mean, Arte was the person who blinded…

…And if you had this idea, I mean, the sexual passion was just one of the manifestations which this mischievous daughter of Zeus who could possess you, one of the ones that she imposed upon human beings. They can now blame it, fortunately, on their…

…girl, Briseis. and explains why he did this thing which enraged Achilles so much. And he says, I was not to blame. It was Zeus and my lot and the fury that walks in the darkness that blinded my judgment that day when I confiscated Achilles' girl. What…

…Achilles' girl. What could I do? At such moments, there is a power that takes command, Arte, the eldest daughter of Zeus, who blinds us, the accursed sprite that she is, flitting through men's heads, corrupting them, bringing down now this one, now…

…us, the accursed sprite that she is, flitting through men's heads, corrupting them, bringing down now this one, now that one. Why, even Zeus was blinded by her once, and Zeus is known to stand above all men and all gods. Well, instead of regarding this…

…through men's heads, corrupting them, bringing down now this one, now that one. Why, even Zeus was blinded by her once, and Zeus is known to stand above all men and all gods. Well, instead of regarding this as a way of shirking responsibility, Achilles…

…of shirking responsibility, Achilles accepts this explanation wholeheartedly, and he says, how utterly a man can be blinded by Father Zeus. Now, this is very interesting. We see here that the whole Homeric idea regarding what we should call unconscious urges…

…supernatural interventions. the good intervention and the bad intervention. And as I say, these interventions may either be by some known god, Zeus or Zeus' immediate agent or Athena or any of the other gods, or else it may be by some supernatural god…

…the good intervention and the bad intervention. And as I say, these interventions may either be by some known god, Zeus or Zeus' immediate agent or Athena or any of the other gods, or else it may be by some supernatural god whom one doesn't…