Sunday, April 27, 2014

Multiple Personality suggested by how Homer's Odysseus fooled the Cyclops, by The Trojan Horse, and by the Greek Gods

The end of yesterday’s post prompts me to speculate about multiple personality in Ancient Greece.

If Homer’s character, Odysseus, used a multiple personality trick to fool the Cyclops, that suggests Homer had multiple personality.

The Trojan Horse might be taken as a metaphor for multiple personality, with the people inside the horse representing the person’s hidden personalities.

The Greek Gods may have originated as the alternate personalities of various poets. The gods are heard as voices, just as alternate personalities often are. They influence from behind the scenes, just as alternate personalities often do. And sometimes they come out and handle things themselves, just as alternate personalities sometimes do.

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