09-01-2008, 01:14 PM
Quote:In exactly the same way, one could say that somebody like Aeschylus was a writer who "made himself" -- although it was the early man who had to discover writing for him, and that the Phoenicians taught him their alphabet.
And I'm willing to bet that the only "Oriental" writer you've ever read, and accidently at that, has been Aesop.