Olympic Games (interesting, actually)

[SigniferOne]

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.

Where is this notion that Aesop was Oriental, just because he came from Eastern Greece? Was Herodotus "Oriental"? And even if it's granted that Aesop was, you can surely find the advancement of Western civilization in that difference between simple stories of Aesop and between Aeschylus.