{"id":231,"date":"2010-10-08T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=231"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:36:14","slug":"analects-of-the-core-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/10\/08\/analects-of-the-core-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Homer on mortals blaming gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In coordination with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty\/profiles\/scully.html\">Professor Scully<\/a>&#8216;s introduction of the culture of ancient Greece &#8212; a domain where the students of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/cc101\/index.htm\">CC101<\/a> will discover the foundations of Western thought &#8212; the Core blog today is featuring an analect that reminds us not to blame those in power for the struggles we encounter as we progress on our academic journey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>My word, how mortals take the gods to task!<br \/>\nAll their afflictions come from us, we hear.<br \/>\nAnd what of their own failings?\u00a0 Greed and folly<br \/>\nDouble the suffering in the lot of man<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Zeus, Homer\u2019s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Odyssey-Homer\/dp\/B002VLTLRO\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1286567406&amp;sr=8-4\">The Odyssey<\/a><\/em> (Book 1, lines 48-51) translated by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardsquarelibrary.org\/poets\/fitzgerald.php\">Robert Fitzgerald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In coordination with Professor Scully&#8217;s introduction of the culture of ancient Greece &#8212; a domain where the students of CC101 will discover the foundations of Western thought &#8212; the Core blog today is featuring an analect that reminds us not to blame those in power for the struggles we encounter as we progress on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,3689,3920,3919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}