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Homer’s Use of the Agamemnon Story

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2020

The Agamemnon story is alluded to multiple times in “Odyssey,” each time with a different slant dependent on the teller’s needs.

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Stories Have Always Opened Up the Future

By Robin Bates | Published: April 12, 2016

An anthropologist argues that human beings took over the world because they had the ability to compose fictions. Literature continues to point the way forward for us as a species.

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Lit Is Aristotelian Road to Happiness

By Robin Bates | Published: December 8, 2015

Psychologists say that a strong sense of narrative identity can lead to the profound sense of happiness described by Aristotle. Literature helps us make sure we have available to us the best narratives.

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The Centrality of Fiction to Our Lives

By Robin Bates | Published: March 18, 2014

Jonathan Gottschall’s “How Stories Make Us Human” is an enlightening book with some limitations.

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