Thiago Carvalho on Nostr: 'Let’s first do a fast rewind of 2,800 years or more. No hearing or eyesight ...
'Let’s first do a fast rewind of 2,800 years or more. No hearing or eyesight support for the elderly, no wristwatches, no thermometers, no electricity, no engines, no plastics, no paracetamol, no three-day weather forecast – and many more such privations for us moderns. Iron was to rise above bronze, though. And, in the teeth of technological poverty, memories were by and large better trained than ours. Let’s look at Odysseus’ celebrated homecoming'
https://aeon.co/essays/how-ancient-greek-language-expresses-a-seaborne-imaginationPublished at
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