Did Homer write The Iliad? Did he even exist? Did a whole culture write it?
The earliest fragments of The Iliad date from about 200 BC. To the best of my knowledge the earliest complete text of the work is from the 10th century AD and all present texts derive from a particularly fine manuscript called Venentus A. If The Iliad can be said to have had an author he was probably a medieval monk, working from a manuscript tradition that preceded him by about a millennium. Presumably, that in turn was preceded by an oral tradition but about that we can only make guesses.
Somehow Heinrich Schliemann took that mess and used as it a roadmap to dig up an ancient city he called “Troy”. More than anything else I think that probably suggests that you can dig just about anywhere in what’s modern Turkey and come up with important archaeological findings.
Did Homer nod? Do the best and brightest understand the function of insurance co-pays?
““It’s equivalent to taxing the sick,†Professor Green, [a professor of economics who has been on the Harvard faculty for more than 4 decades] said. “I don’t think there’s any government in the world that would tax the sick.â€â€
Embrace the suck. “For a doctor’s office visit, the charge is $20.”
Only in Obama’s Amerikkka. “The university is adopting standard features of most employer-sponsored health plans: Employees will now pay deductibles and a share of the costs, known as coinsurance . . ..”
Those wealthy fucks are gonna have to pay twenty whole dollars to see a doctor? Can the end of Civilization As We Know It be far behind?
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