The next set of nine passages of the Dao De Jing of Laotze. Translated by Bob Gonzalez. EPITOME presented passages 1-9, as well as an introduction to the work and its author, in episode 21.
The story sung by Demodocus, singer of the court of Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, hosts of Odysseus after his raft washes ashore on the island of S cherie. How Aphrodite, goddess of love, cheated on her husband, Hephaestus, the gods' smithy, with Ares, god of war.
More aphorisms and commentary from Balthasar Gracián, the 17th century Spanish Jesuit philosopher, offering counsel on surviving and thriving in the life of the court and society in general.
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