I don't think so, primarily because signalling is an idea arising from modern thought
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somehow i read that as "signaling is an idea arising from modems"
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hrm... I like it. Reminds me of Diogenes trolling Plato and Alexander the Great, though even that is a lot later
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Socratic method is also affectionately known as the annoying toddler. "Everything's just more questions with you!"
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In early Ireland, heroic epic is tragic. See Togail Bruidne Dá Derga for one instance of it.
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tragedies are just heroic epics with the signs flipped: larger than life figures with enormous defeats rather than triumphs.
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Not exactly, as the prestige of the heroic epic remained high (even with the tragedians). But there is nonetheless a shift in the Axial Age.
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I think we have lost far too much of this literature to see clearly how it evolved
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but it is likely edgelords played a roll
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Have we any reason to believe that the heroic epic was the default form?
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Beckwith suggests that the Heroic Myth was the default form for the Northern and Central Eurasia
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Never heard of Beckwith. But cf Michael Witzel http://jayarava.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/origins-of-worlds-mythologies.html …
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shit posters.
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