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Fun factoids I picked up: "Odyssey" and "odious" have the same root, and there were no chickens in Europe when Homer was alive--they came west from Persia around 500 B.C.
— Oct 15, 2015 06:18AM
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Chap.s 8 & 9: Achilles, contrasted with the culture of the Mediterranean (commerce, hierarchy, guile) represents the ethos of the Bronze Age culture of the Central Asian steppes, from where Europeans came.
— Oct 19, 2015 05:50AM
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Chap. 7: On Unity (with the past, i. e. opposing soldiers discussing their ancestry on the battlefield) and division (severing heads and limbs) in Homer; "alternating connectedness and separateness is intimate with the nature of existence, of the thinking mind, the experiencing heart, the world that weaves and severs."
— Oct 17, 2015 03:30PM
Hector
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Did Homer create epic poetry by improvising with chunks of even earlier epics, or were his works created and memorized in a whole, deliberate way? Nicolson says, yes.
— Oct 16, 2015 05:43AM
