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houseofmuses on July 22, 2010
Ever wonder why the ancient poets and scholars of Archaic Greece had such a fire for learning and discovering? Because they had gone through a long period–a long Dark Age–of having had everything taken away from them. It was an event in history called the Dorian Invasion.
Those of you who've got your copy of House of the Muses #6 got a shocking glimpse of this, and will understand what it means.
Sappho's era was a time of rebirth, and though the concept of girl's schools would not be popular again for many centuries after her passing, the dream would never completely die.
tommym at 9:55AM, Feb. 28, 2011
Dear HoM, From the vantage point of Feb. 2011 It got worse tammy
houseofmuses at 9:19PM, July 23, 2010
Oh, yeah--! Book burnings, mass executions. Sorry, dragonrider, I must have gotten my hands on one of those "updated and rewritten" 2010 Texas history books.... :P
dragonrider at 7:51PM, July 23, 2010
Dorian Invasion? I thought it was called the Bush Presidency.