Monday, November 07, 2011

Odysseus and the middle way of mean between extremes

Aha! In the 3rd book of the Iliad, the "catalog of ships" Odysseus ship is mid-most on the lineup along the shores, with Achilles being farthest from Troy, since he was swift enough to meet the enemy first, and Ajax (The Wall) was closest to Troy since he was such a lumbering bulwark. Odysseus is the very embodiment of mean between extremes or middle way. His legs are short but his trunk is tall so seated at council he towers above the rest. Now it is Odysseus in the myth of Er who chooses the LAST lot, but chooses the best life for rebirth since all are conditioned to choose based upon their previous life and each tended to veer to the OPPOSITE, the weak chosing a tyrant's life, and tyrants becoming swans. Odysseus chose the life of a free middle-class member of a Democracy AND Odysseus rejected the opportunity which Circes offered for IMMORTALITY.

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