SA wrote(Feb. 8)quoting Cambell:
"For the Greek view of the world, as Spengler
well showed in his discussions of the 'Apollonian
soul' in 'The Decline of the West', placed all its
emphasis on visible, tangible bodies. The Greek
tongue possessed no word for space."
SA continues: Now that's something! "no word
for space".
[Campbell continues in the next sentence]
"The far away and the invisible were ipso facto
'not there'.
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Jorge: that's interesting. According to Anne
Cauquelin's "L'Invention du paysage" the Greeks did
not have a word for landscape either. Not just the
word was missing but the idea of landscape was absent.
Makes sense in the light of Campbell's observation
that "The far away was 'not there'".
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