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2 - Athens, Rome, Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2022

Anna Rist  and
John Rist
John Rist
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Plato is Moses speaking Attic Greek.

Numenius of Apamea (Second century AD)
Homer was not an Athenian, but by tradition a blind and wandering bard of the isle of Chios, off the Ionian coast. However, the first ‘edition’ of the Homeric poems was produced in sixth century BC Athens and marks the beginning of an intellectual and artistic achievement which laid the groundwork for the ‘Western’ culture we and the world have inherited and which we shall henceforth refer to as the Original Tradition.

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Confusion in the West
Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World
 , pp. 10 - 39
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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