Is There a Progress in the Arts?

Vike is one of the few original thinkers who says, every culture prod es masterpieces of its own. The homeric poems can only have been the product of an oligarchical culture which was stern avaricious and brutal. In this so called civilized condition, it was no longer possible to write hermetic poems. Vico came out fully armed, without any anticipators, with nothing at all before him. E, i don't know whether spepsiis o a her, i reach the end of my hour,. but yet i have very great deal more to say about vico.