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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote2024-06-10 08:13 pm
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On Tribalism

Although I investigated the ages of Hesiod and Homer as exactly as possible, I take no pleasure in writing about it, since I know that other people are captious, especially the appointed "experts" on epic poetry in my time.

[Pausanias, Descriptions of Greece IX xxx 3, as translated by Glenn W. Most]


Good to see that some things never change.


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