20 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 27 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Money And Trade In The Homeric World bitcoin
Hola. I think the Lydians introduced coinage in the early years of the 7th century b.c. The Homeric Hymn has been standardized as poetry by rhapsodes in front of their aristocratic audience 100 years before and it was reflecting the rise of greek culture after the Dorian catastrophy between 1200 and 1000 b.c. It's the pure archaic spirit. If You have time You should have a glance at the Iliad. Maybe an audio version. First word of written European culture is ''menin aeide thea'' - sing about the rage of Achilleos. Rage was the theme and the first word. To disappoint anyone here, it wasn't ''Bitcoin''...
I read it 50 years ago and really enjoyed it. Lately I'm very into Roman history, which really began as a result of collecting ancient Roman coins. I'm slowly getting into the ancient Greek stuff too. I think I'll take your recommendation and start by re reading the Illiad. My recollection was that it's a great story- not really straight history, though, obviously!
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I read it first during my history studies, partially in old greek. The hexameter has been sung. In the theater it's great, makes You shivers and let's You dive into another universe.
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So you can read ancient Greek? That’s impressive. I took a few "classics" courses in college, which is what they called it in the US when I was a student. The upper level courses read texts in Latin and Ancient Greek. That was way beyond my ability or commitment.
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No, I really cannot say that. I forgot 90% over the years, but Latin still is very present.
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