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charamei (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} charamei) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
Oh, but it belongs to ~all of humanity~ because the Romans, er, imposed their (appropriated) culture on the entire Western world 2,000 years ago.
On one level, I can sort of agree with him; a story doesn't become that timeless without in some way appealing to the universals of human nature. But that doesn't make it unGreek; that makes it Greek and timeless.
Book II of the Iliad can be greatly simplified into 'And these Greek states are better than you,' FFS.
On one level, I can sort of agree with him; a story doesn't become that timeless without in some way appealing to the universals of human nature. But that doesn't make it unGreek; that makes it Greek and timeless.
Book II of the Iliad can be greatly simplified into 'And these Greek states are better than you,' FFS.
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