What Fate, Justice, and Time Reveal About the Soul in the Odyssey

Zeus’s brother Poseidon might be able to shake the solid earth into city-destroying quakes and whip oceans in waves higher than hills; Hephaestus might make mountains burst with fire and flame; Zeus might fill the sky with thunder-booming clouds and scorch the world with cracks of lightning, but such displays were less than the whirling of gnats when set against those terrible forces of Time,…