... 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence -... ...censor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial pu... ...ile Dante identifies the cardinal sins as the negative forces that destroy people during their lives after they have left the womb, Homer sees them a... ...storted. When, as so often happens, disillusionment and unhappiness arrive, people often realize that it is another type of beauty they are looking f... ... Pharaohs built their pyramids as signs of their presumed immortality; the Chinese emperors brought their armies of terracotta soldiers to the grave ... ...lysses manages to do. Homer makes this clear when he speaks of Ulysses’ descent into Hades. (Od. XI) There, Ulysses, who is alive and who came i... ...hen, instead, he tells us how Ulysses decides to leave and to face first a descent into Hades and after that the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, he is ... ...uddhism (for example “Zen and the Art of Archery”) and the Buddhism of the Japanese monk Nichiren. The first poison is the illusion that makes us...

...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale o...