Before philosophy: Homer’s world

Following up on the question of why philosophy begins with Thales, we are stepping back to the pre-philosophical world of Homer. Homer is thought to have lived 800s-700s BCE, a century or two before Thales (born around 624 BCE). Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are magnificent expressions of archaic Greek culture and of incalculable […]

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