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I wonder if he read Bruno Snell's "The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought." A lot of what's described in the article about the Greeks
by nemo 12y ago
I wonder if he read Bruno Snell's "The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought." A lot of what's described in the article about the Greeks and the Iliad/Odyssey is akin to Snell's approach. Though Snell didn't use the idea of the bicameral mind he traced the origins of conscious thought through the Greeks very similarly.
- anigbrowl 12y agoHe cites it twice, but notes that he and Snell came to quite different conclusions although their lines of inquiry overlap significantly.