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The Works and Days expressed the present. The new poetry expresses the person in the present, the particular individual and how he is different from others. And celebrates the difference. And as it does so, we can trace a progressive filling out and stretching of the earlier preconscious hypostases into the mind space of consciousness.
— Julian Jaynes
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Works and Days expressed the present. The new poetry expresses the person in the present, the particular individual and how he is different from others. And celebrates the difference. And as it does so, we can trace a progressive filling out and stretching of the earlier preconscious hypostases into the mind space of consciousness." in the context of "Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), p. 282" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Hesiod" (Quotes about Hesiod)
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About Hesiod
Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an early Greek poet, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC.
About Hesiod
Hesiod (Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos) was an early Greek poet, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC.
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