Competition in the ancient world
What strikes me about the ancient Mediterranean world is that it was competitive, adversarial, agonistic.
The myths that ancient people told themselves were about groups vying for prizes of all sorts, women, cities, glory. Not even the gods could escape the competition framework. Rather than being apathetic, Lucretian deities removed from the world of t…
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