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Ancient Greeks attributed Mycenaean remains to the “Age of Heroes”. They were amazed by the scale and engineering quality of the work and thought it was done by
by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Ancient Greeks attributed Mycenaean remains to the “Age of Heroes”. They were amazed by the scale and engineering quality of the work and thought it was done by gods and mythical creatures such as Cyclopes. They didn’t approach progress linearly or mono-dimensionally.
Heinrich Schliemann was probably the first to connect the myths with tangible proof through archeology in late 19th century. While Lévi-Strauss work was much later and more political and polemical rather than scientific.
- BirAdam 11mo agoYeah, the “Age of Heroes” was just Ancient Aliens for the Greeks: “we can’t do it, so it can’t be human work”
- AndrewKemendo 11mo agoExactly, it wasn’t some view to the past as the root of great culture. If you read the actual Polybius you’ll see that there was no ideas of evolution or that we’re in the same category as other living things