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🦋 Sophistry

I was happy to stumble upon Dion Chrysostom's 11th discourse, Maintaining that Troy was not captured. Kirill Yeskov cites Chrysostom as "the founder of this literary tradition of playing with othersâ€™ masks and backdrops" -- Chrysostom argues that Homer cannot be trusted as a reliable narrator, that the AchÃ¦ans were in fact defeated at Troy. A refreshing read. Chrysostom's To Plato in defense of Homer has been lost to the ages.

posted evening of Thursday, February 24th, 2011
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