The historian Diodorus of Sicily presents men as drawn to language by necessity: in his account (probably going back, through the aforementioned Hellenistic source, to doctrines as old as the fifth cen- tury bce), the progress from collective cries uttered by dispersed and primitive men towards a shared set of names is described as the result of a common life prompted by the humans’ need to protect themselves from beasts.
Language Is a Collective Product of Mankind Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History (1st Century bce)
Pontani F.
2023-01-01
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The historian Diodorus of Sicily presents men as drawn to language by necessity: in his account (probably going back, through the aforementioned Hellenistic source, to doctrines as old as the fifth cen- tury bce), the progress from collective cries uttered by dispersed and primitive men towards a shared set of names is described as the result of a common life prompted by the humans’ need to protect themselves from beasts.
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