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Ordinary Blasphemies

You do not need to believe in goddesses.
But you do need to fear them.

Marcellus Durrell

ORDINARY BLASPHEMIES
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Has The Odyssey triggered your desire to read more Greek mythology? Then Marcellus Durrell’s Ordinary Blasphemies is essential reading.

 

On the isle of Lesvos, the aging hunter Demetrios the Adequate inadvertently offends the goddess Artemis when he watches her bathe in a creek. The goddess, perfectly willing to kill Demetrios for the offense, agrees to delay the execution if he brings her the legendary Swath of Apollo. "The only creature stupider than a man," she tells him, "is a man with an erection."

 

As the hapless Demetrios tries to find the sacred object, the goddess interferes to make his quest much more difficult and dangerous than necessary. He eventually returns to Artemis, who absolves him of his guilt, but then he learns that during his travels he has offended the goddess Aphrodite and now must go on a mission for her. He completes the mission but discovers he has offended Ares, the God of War. That too requires a mission of absolution.

 

Demetrios ultimately concludes that the Olympian divinities, despite their powers, perfect beauty and immortality, are mostly miserable. In the end, he thanks the gods that he is not one of them.

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