Nothing fancies my interest so much as some of the earliest known works of philosophy and literature. Beginnings allure me. For something most powerful emerged at a very distant point in time! Something most powerful sprung ancient civilization out of the dark ages towards enlightenment! This brought forth a more sophisticated use of language through the evolution of more enhanced writing techniques. More complex concepts could be expressed. Hence words, and ultimately phrases, could replace symbolism.
This powerful entity is nothing other than literature!
Homer's Iliad and The Odyssey are absolutely brilliant, through my dark, ever-reading eyes. Within Homer's works, the very essentials of human tragedy and love are captured vividly in the newly found language of the poet. And so establishes the power of words.......
Words, words, words.......philosophical theory and historical fact are as well expressed through this medium. That we are able, nearly 2,800 years later, to fathom what it was to exist in ancient civilizations is nothing less than miraculous!
Plutarch wrote a bok of lives. Plato wrote on how to exist. Alexander read and read obsessively ~as he did nothing casually.~ Homer's poetry sang the written word!
All I know comes from what I've read. History, literature, and philosophy entrance and enthrall me. I bid come again, as I shall write more words in praise of these, my passions!
