08-28-2008, 04:53 PM
I think I'm detecting a lack of open minds here. History, like any other study, should always be open to revision when sufficient supporting evidence is presented.
Speaking for myself, I can say I'm convinced that the "Classicists" haven't given the "Orientalists" -- or the civilizations they espouse -- enough credit. They Olympics may have been specifically Greek, but they didn't invent competition, thought, reasoning, or art, and I fail to see that "the worship of the human body" is an all-surpassing achievement.
I personally would love to see translations of the undeciphered cuneiform tablets -- what else would we learn?
Speaking for myself, I can say I'm convinced that the "Classicists" haven't given the "Orientalists" -- or the civilizations they espouse -- enough credit. They Olympics may have been specifically Greek, but they didn't invent competition, thought, reasoning, or art, and I fail to see that "the worship of the human body" is an all-surpassing achievement.
I personally would love to see translations of the undeciphered cuneiform tablets -- what else would we learn?
Wayne Anderson/ Wander
