It does seem like there was always a struggle between higher thought within the Hellenic sphere like Platonism and the old, rowdy "campfire tales" that is the Homeric literature and other archaic sources. This seems to have fed into Plato's interest in formulating new state constitutions that called for an intellectual elite inventing a new cultural/religious narrative for the purpose of providing laws and moral guidance to the common people.
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Date: 2023-02-26 03:26 am (UTC)It does seem like there was always a struggle between higher thought within the Hellenic sphere like Platonism and the old, rowdy "campfire tales" that is the Homeric literature and other archaic sources. This seems to have fed into Plato's interest in formulating new state constitutions that called for an intellectual elite inventing a new cultural/religious narrative for the purpose of providing laws and moral guidance to the common people.