Study of classics limits your ability to understand because text and material can only begin the process of initiation. Culture is participatory; it is spirit. Absent the spirit, you must substitute your own. Classics taught in Britain is about the British, not the GrecoRomans.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1005202922794356738 …
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Can't understand the Greeks except through the Romans; Romans are converted to Christianity; Greek mindset is necessary for that conversion. Greeks intuit human (mortal) condition through pursuit of divinity; Christian revelation fulfills it. Working on a book exploring this.
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All the texts we have come to us through Roman transmission; what is fragmentary is because of Roman lack of interest. Art is informed by either received text or speculation. Our world continues to be either Roman or aspires to Romanity.
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Greek mindset also takes over the Romans. On a linear historical timeline we can distinguish them, but as a soul to be comprehended, they are inseparable.
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