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Vico’s Prescient Evolutionary Model for Homer

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Vico’s Prescient Evolutionary Model for Homer

Steven M. Berry

Verisimilia namque vera inter et falsa sunt quasi media.

“For indeed, probabilities [i.e., things that seem true] are midway, more or less, between true things and false things.”

– Giambattista Vico, De nostri temporis Studiorum Ratione (1709)

Tutte l’antiche storie profane hanno favolosi in princìpi.

“All the profane stories of antiquity were told orally in the beginning.”

– la Scienza Nuova (1744) [1]

Footnotes

[ back ] 1. Unless specified, all translations are those of the author.