I think of Alexander as promoting a certain kind of imperialism and cultural traits such as heroique endevaours that should have some continuities and discontinuities with the life on the polis, so the observation of he was deeply influenced by Homer... just look so interesting i mean he was strong motivated by greek cultural traits but at the same time he went beyond of them, at least politically speaking o.o Maybe in a sense he was more Persian (empire) than Greek (polis)? The same goes for platonic speculations, raised in a polis in crisis end up in a kind of imperial polical theory with neoplatonists (triying to follow here Peter Sloterdijk's account in Speheres II)
I am so charmed by the idea that reading poetry is dangerous; I think it is in the best sense of the word. The reader risks being challenged and changed.
I agree! The “danger of ideas” was sort of a part of literary criticism as a whole - I’m thinking of the part in Athenaeus where one of the characters indicts Plato because the Republic promotes so many “backwards” ideas
I think of Alexander as promoting a certain kind of imperialism and cultural traits such as heroique endevaours that should have some continuities and discontinuities with the life on the polis, so the observation of he was deeply influenced by Homer... just look so interesting i mean he was strong motivated by greek cultural traits but at the same time he went beyond of them, at least politically speaking o.o Maybe in a sense he was more Persian (empire) than Greek (polis)? The same goes for platonic speculations, raised in a polis in crisis end up in a kind of imperial polical theory with neoplatonists (triying to follow here Peter Sloterdijk's account in Speheres II)
I am so charmed by the idea that reading poetry is dangerous; I think it is in the best sense of the word. The reader risks being challenged and changed.
I agree! The “danger of ideas” was sort of a part of literary criticism as a whole - I’m thinking of the part in Athenaeus where one of the characters indicts Plato because the Republic promotes so many “backwards” ideas