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The Importance of Emotional Reactions in Ancient Literature
Julian James is picking up on that there just aren't like go find strong emotional reactions in really ancient literature. And then when you do, it's often then a debatable sort of subject of translation. They just don't have a rich language for describing minds and an example that I give in my book is the story of the shipwreck sailor which goes back to around 2000 BC.