The complex imaginary relationships of our owners' "Great Faminelies of the gods" has always baffled me, probably because there's just the teeeniest bit of SEX!ual titallation implicit in Rhea FOLKING Her brother Kronus... possibly "taking Her Time", but of course the record is fragmentary.
The traveling "poets" of ur-Greece apparently knew how to "spice up" their recitals for their listeners. And now I'm guessing, but this typically may have been "a bunch of people," mostly men, standing around a tiny dusty "village" market "place", waiting for something interesting to happen... showing off their jewelry, flexing, and exchanging eyebrow flickers, in the course of making Her "little deals"?
But a Roman public story-telling venue might have have had a more random and variable audience, and possibly on average a younger one? Not just bored, but avid to experience a lyrical articulation of words? And not perceptibly "metered" by the "feet" of Her owners' "universal forms" (at least I'm not seeing "line breaks" to cue verbal recitation), but "simply spoken."
I wish network latency and other factors didn't so "easily" defeat my attempts to follow web comic story lines... oh, well!
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Date: 2007-09-23 10:25 pm (UTC)The traveling "poets" of ur-Greece apparently knew how to "spice up" their recitals for their listeners. And now I'm guessing, but this typically may have been "a bunch of people," mostly men, standing around a tiny dusty "village" market "place", waiting for something interesting to happen... showing off their jewelry, flexing, and exchanging eyebrow flickers, in the course of making Her "little deals"?
But a Roman public story-telling venue might have have had a more random and variable audience, and possibly on average a younger one? Not just bored, but avid to experience a lyrical articulation of words? And not perceptibly "metered" by the "feet" of Her owners' "universal forms" (at least I'm not seeing "line breaks" to cue verbal recitation), but "simply spoken."
I wish network latency and other factors didn't so "easily" defeat my attempts to follow web comic story lines... oh, well!