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    It is not the case that People at any time can come to appreciate both the art of Sophocles and that of Shakespeare

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    • 1.Herder argues that each historical epoch constitutes a self-contained whole whose values and meanings cannot be fully translated across cultural boundaries.
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    • 2.Sophocles' tragedies are constitutively embedded in Attic religious ritual, civic life, and polytheistic cosmology that modern audiences cannot genuinely inhabit.
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    • 3.Appreciation that requires stripping away constitutive context yields a different aesthetic object, not cross-temporal access to the original work.
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    • 1.Gadamer's concept of historically-effected consciousness holds that a work's meaning is always co-constituted by the interpreter's own historical horizon.
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    • 2.If meaning is horizon-dependent, then what contemporary audiences appreciate in Sophocles is necessarily a fusion of horizons, not the work itself as it stood for its original audience.
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    • 3.A claim of genuine cross-temporal appreciation therefore conflates the fused product of hermeneutic encounter with the original aesthetic object.
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    • 1.The art of Sophocles and the art of Shakespeare rest on the same underlying principle
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    • 2.Works sharing an underlying principle are accessible across time, though requiring effort to appreciate their language, customs, and worlds
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