Question

Answer the following about dodgy social science by nerds who spent too much time reading the Iliad, for 10 points each.
[10m] The lack of introspection in the Iliad led Julian Jaynes to postulate that until the Bronze Age, humans existed in this pre-conscious mental state, in which the right hemisphere of their brain spoke in the voice of a commanding god.
ANSWER: the bicameral mind [or bicameral mentality; accept The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind]
[10h] In his 1858 book Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, this thinker argued that ancient Greeks were color-blind because the Iliad describes lions as red and honey as green.
ANSWER: William Gladstone (Yes, that William Gladstone.)
[10e] Ancient Greek fanboy Heinrich Schliemann spent years digging at the site of Hisarlik in hopes of finding this ancient walled city; miraculously, he was more or less right.
ANSWER: Troy [or Troja or Ilion]
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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y316.67100%67%0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y316.67100%33%33%
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