But remember, the reason you can read something like The Odyssey and say "I can relate to many of these emotions even though I've never been a king and butchered dozens of men who were flirting with my wife when I got home" is because back then there were people with plenty of 'surplus' and they spent the time mulling over a lot of thing…
But remember, the reason you can read something like The Odyssey and say "I can relate to many of these emotions even though I've never been a king and butchered dozens of men who were flirting with my wife when I got home" is because back then there were people with plenty of 'surplus' and they spent the time mulling over a lot of things we mull over today. Today we have interns at HBO serve me Game of Thrones and Sopranos, back then it might have been slaves and bards but between keeping ourselves alive and eventually running out of life we had a lot of time to kill.
But remember, the reason you can read something like The Odyssey and say "I can relate to many of these emotions even though I've never been a king and butchered dozens of men who were flirting with my wife when I got home" is because back then there were people with plenty of 'surplus' and they spent the time mulling over a lot of things we mull over today. Today we have interns at HBO serve me Game of Thrones and Sopranos, back then it might have been slaves and bards but between keeping ourselves alive and eventually running out of life we had a lot of time to kill.