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Jaynes uses the Odyssey as a post bicameralism work. The Odyssey was written well before any of those people were alive.
by mistercow 11y ago
Jaynes uses the Odyssey as a post bicameralism work. The Odyssey was written well before any of those people were alive.
- drzaiusapelord 11y agoArticle: So he decides to read early texts, including The Iliad and The Odyssey, to look for signs of people who aren’t capable of introspection—people who are all sea, no rime. And he believes he sees that in The Iliad. He writes that the characters in The Iliad do not look inward, and they take no independent initiative. They only do what is suggested by the gods. -- The Iliad is from 1200BC story, so that means he calling a good chunk of written history and those civilizations (Egypt, early Greece, Mesopotamia) as having this ridiculous pre-modern consciousness.
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- mistercow 11y ago> So he decides to read early texts, including The Iliad and The Odyssey, to look for signs of people who aren’t capable of introspection—people who are all sea, no rime. And he believes he sees that in The Iliad. Right, not in the Odyssey. And I've read the book; he specifically contrasts the Iliad with the Odyssey. >The Iliad is from 1200BC story, so that means he calling a good chunk of written history and those civilizations (Egypt, early Greece, Mesopotamia) as having this ridiculous pre-modern consciousness. Yes, that is correct. But not the people who you listed.