Before the jewish, christian, and islamic destruction of all the civilizations of the ancient world, the foundation narrative of western (mediterranean) civilization was Homer, and it was as common a subject of thought as the medieval bible – and to much superior consequence.
Source date (UTC): 2019-10-10 00:38:16 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1182092952790867968
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@FaithGoldy But there is nothing european about it, other than wrapping paper of our Sun God, and it’s the inversion of the western heroic tradition which was aristocratic, militaristic, competitive, gods were troublemakers to appeal to or avoid and achilles was the man to imitate.
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@FaithGoldy But there is nothing european about it, other than wrapping paper of our Sun God, and it’s the inversion of the western heroic tradition which was aristocratic, militaristic, competitive, gods were troublemakers to appeal to or avoid and achilles was the man to imitate.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1182092444487356416
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