Scepticism
has attained its culminating point with respect to Homer, and the state of our
Homeric knowledge may be described as a free permission to believe any theory,
provided we throw overboard[pg xi] all written tradition, concerning the author or authors
of the Iliad and Odyssey. What few authorities exist on the subject, are
summarily dismissed, although the arguments appear to run in a circle.
"This cannot be true, because it is not true; and, that is not true,
because it cannot be true." Such seems to be the style, in which testimony
upon testimony, statement upon statement, is consigned to denial and oblivion.
A body of a
work: the works concerning it and the works it influenced is a structure of the
thoughts and ideas that encompass the main and the extended wholeness of that
work. Some things inspired by or based
on said work actually are part of an accepted body concerning the mythos
thereof, others are paradise and even inductive to the tradition reflected in the
main body of this mythos. The exertek conceiving
said work is outside the scholarly accepted body of thought though it does
portray ideas concerning the work or more exactly the envious criticism of a
text that has reach world renown and is considered to have been written with
the highest virtue of authorship. Is a
disregard of the main body of the text too skeptical or is it necessary to read
things like the bible for yourself then think about it and return to reading the
interpretations others have had of the text in question. Be skeptical concerning what you may have
heard from others concerning the text and check to see how your interpretation differs
from what you may have heard if anything.
You can read a book as if it was your first time even if read it before. You can read a work looking for the
information others have offered concerning the text or what you have heard or
picked up from other sources, including a movie, TV radio or another publication.
Descartes claimed in the meditations the
unicorn is an idea comprised of a horn and a horse, even if the mythical
unicorn does not exist the horn and horse did and the amalgamation of the two
allows for imagination and art to bring it to life, it is myth and stories over
any media that creates the body of mythos concerning these works. Authors borrow and are inspired by various
sources including other author’s works. If
one recalls that some poets as Socrates would say are not worth having in the
main body of the city concerning an idea, as I say, some poets will be returned
as fantasy and some as real thought or even empirically investigated
works. Something’s are real and something’s
add to as mythos and others are mere fantasies that add nothing to the body of
the mythos other than exotic outside the circle ideas and fantasies concerning
that work, some will fad others persist as counter or Anti thoughts conceding said
work.. In a myth like Homers odyssey one
must recall truths concerning what are endemic to humanity, what is good, what happening
it those times, though the text might altar as you go through based on new
things happening in your personal and the cosmos. It turns out believing there is something to
learn about homers time and humanity in general, that the myth is more than just fantasy but also of scholarly
rational empirical necessity, the events in the math are based on reality and
unraveling them is part of the fun, If
you remember that myth is a way to code events in images then homers myth must
hide truths about his time and people in general that must be unraveled to
understand all the traditions influenced by it , and that is the entire cosmos,
the necessity for analysis is utmost!!!
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