Tariq Ali - 'Theogony' should be read before t...

'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.

Tariq Ali

Pakistani Historian

Born: Oct 21, 1943

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