08-05-2013, 01:42 PM
While reading (or studing) ancient texts, I have learned a lesson from a professor here in Italy that told me that normally when a detail is written about a garment, a colour, a way to combat or whatever, this has to be intended as a non-ordinary stuff, an exception or, generally speking, something that is so particular, so special that need to be mentioned.
Of course it will be the work of the modern reader to distinguish, according to the style of writing or the context, what is ordinary and what is "special".
This could mean that a single mention of a black cloak could be at least at the beginning read as "a strange thing that needs to be mentioned".
Of course it will be the work of the modern reader to distinguish, according to the style of writing or the context, what is ordinary and what is "special".
This could mean that a single mention of a black cloak could be at least at the beginning read as "a strange thing that needs to be mentioned".
