The Odyssey is a very different poem from the Iliad in many ways, but in one way it picks up right where the Iliad leaves off: with the fallout of war and the journey to re-integrate soldiers back into the civil society they came from. Today we begin Odysseus' long journey home, which actually begins at the end and works backward, starting with his son Telemachus' journey to grow to manhod without his dad around.

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Stephen C. Meyer, The Return of the God Hypothesis: https://a.co/d/gbIOQSY

Owen Barfield, Worlds Apart: https://a.co/d/1eVagdy

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C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man: https://a.co/d/e3QeBte

C.S. Lewis, Miracles: https://a.co/d/g9hpjq5

Victor Stenger, God: The Failed Hypothesis: https://a.co/d/gmGwcoW

James Hannam, God's Philosophers: https://a.co/d/625AA62

Ed Feser, Aristotle's Revenge: https://a.co/d/bPGnKuf

Augustine, Confessions: https://a.co/d/99APz4T

Augustine, De Genesi ad litteram imperfectus liber: https://www.augustinus.it/latino/genesi_incompiuto/index.htm