Why did the Greeks see the left as blessed? I think a lot of cultures traditionally see, or at least have a tradition of seeing, the left as bad. For instance, it wasn't until a few decades ago that most Americans (Westerners?) stopped seeing left-handedness as a sign of evil. Maybe the Greeks were more open-minded, or maybe other cultures were trying to propagate their way of life and their powerand the other side as wrong (I'm referring to the Da Vinci Code, where it's explained that the left-hand side was associated with the feminine and the right with the masculine. When the masculine-worshippers took over-I'm just paraphrasing what the book said-they turned the left into the side of evil, cf. the Latin "sinister" becoming the English "sinister") and the Greeks hadn't adopted that view. Of course, Roman women had far more rights than Greek women who were expected to stay at home, weave, cook and clean, and reproduce. Anyone got any ideas? Gratias.
Feliciter on the test tomorrow!