One of the books I’ve dipped in and out of lately is The Iliad; don’t worry, I’ve not converted to polytheism, cast aside my salvation – if such a thing were even possible – or started worshipping Zeus, I just have a literary interest in the book. In the early chapters, after a rather large tiff between Achilles and King Agamemnon, Achilles’ mother heads up to Mount Olympus to petition Zeus on her son’s behalf. What happens next was most amusing; Zeus, the big daddy of all the Greek deities, is not at home. He can’t answer her petitions because...
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