Throughout the ages, humankind has been deeply troubled by the existence of evil. ... In the literary period after Homer (c. 800 B.C.), Hesiod writes about the five successive races of humankind: the golden, the silver, the bronze, the heroic, and the iron. He states that the golden race lives on in the form of "benevolent daemons," which ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" In today's day and age, "otherworldly forces" are now dubbed as the "supernatural.... You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns- Hermes the giant-killer, god of the golden wand, he always said you'd come (245). ...

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• Grade Level: High School