In the time of Plato, only the most educated could read and write. So if you could do both, I think your odds of being remembered had almost as much to do with writing good quality as it did with being lucky enough for your writing to survive centuries.
In the time of Plato, only the most educated could read and write. So if you could do both, I think your odds of being remembered had almost as much to do with writing good quality as it did with being lucky enough for your writing to survive centuries.
As for us…it will happen but only very rarely.
That’s such a good point I’ve never really thought about. 🤔
Hey, that makes you a sorcerer, just in the wrong century.
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what’s it that you disagree with?
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i know, but what specifically in that comment?
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but we know that too few people used to be literate. I couldn’t understand the need to disagree with this, i thought i misunderstood what you wrote.
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can you give some sources?