Submitted by Isabella1293 t3_zowtl7 in history
jkershaw t1_j0sktme wrote
Reply to comment by PhiloCroc in Greek Hinduism - any surviving legacy? by Isabella1293
Great, carefully reply. This point
"Our comparative models making us think two very different things are similar (do not underestimate this)."
Is really insightful, a lot of very poor history is based on people picking up seeming similarities and turning them into theories - notably that awful Netflix shows.
Then the next issues is assuming that things that were genuinely shared meant the same thing even in the new context - when the act of translation changed the meaning
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