News Summary

• Homer intro­duces the con­cepts of hubris and neme­sis, which “we can’t do with­out in ordi­nary dis­course.” There’s the “caprice of the gods,” with which every reli­gion has had to deal, as well as the even more uni­ver­sal feel­ing of nos­tal­gia, “a very overused and sen­ti­men­tal ­ized term now, which lit­er­al­ly means — and can only real­ly mean — the yearn­ing to go home”