“The universal Western canon has all the attraction, grandiosity, and absurdity of a myth.”

Because it is a myth. It is a construct that brings together these texts that are not inherently of themselves “western”. They become “western” only when we place them into a category we have constructed called “western.” There is a fundamental difference between the works themselves and later uses of them. The works were not western in their writing, but only in their later use.

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    Rebecca Futo Kennedy

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    Classicist, Ancient Historian, Critical Lover of the Classical Past. Blog: https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/ ; Twitter: @kataplexis