Jul 23, 2026 · 15 min · 8 segments
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Alex LeffGuestDeath in The Garden HostHostYou know, like there was throughout the story, he's bringing up Zeus's law, which apparently is something that he kind of made more of a thing for this.
It's being kind to your neighbors.
It's being respectful to your neighbors.
If a beggar or a traveler comes through your village or your town or your castle, you treat them like an equal.
You welcome them in.
You feed them.
You clothe them.
You have a conversation with them.
You don't treat them with animosity.
You don't treat them with disrespect.
And
you don't want to disrespect the gods because the wrath of the gods will rain down upon you and destroy your world, will unravel your world, destroy your civilization, destroy your world.
And so that's why it has to be treated with utmost respect.
Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about kind of these like three or four tiers of how humans relate to the forces around them.
And I think the Odyssey has helped me kind of like crystallize something I've been thinking about.
You know, the most recent episode that I put out for Human Nature Odyssey with Sophie Strand, we were talking a lot about animism as well as Homer in the Odyssey.
You know, like there was throughout the story, he's bringing up Zeus's law, which apparently is something that he kind of made more of a thing for this.
It's being kind to your neighbors.
It's being respectful to your neighbors.
If a beggar or a traveler comes through your village or your town or your castle, you treat them like an equal.
You welcome them in.
You feed them.
You clothe them.
You have a conversation with them.
You don't treat them with animosity.
You don't treat them with disrespect.
And
you don't want to disrespect the gods because the wrath of the gods will rain down upon you and destroy your world, will unravel your world, destroy your civilization, destroy your world.
And so that's why it has to be treated with utmost respect.
Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about kind of these like three or four tiers of how humans relate to the forces around them.
And I think the Odyssey has helped me kind of like crystallize something I've been thinking about.
You know, the most recent episode that I put out for Human Nature Odyssey with Sophie Strand, we were talking a lot about animism as well as Homer in the Odyssey.
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