[LexBaird]

For comparison of a contemporary European work: Millet "The Gleaners", 1857. For some reason, I always saw a parallel and contrast between the two works.

Millet's painting corresponds with the rise of the recognition of the proletariat and classism (Marx's manifesto was 1848-9) with peasants picking for grains in the stubble of the horseman's field, as opposed to Homer's individualist American, profiting from his own labors.

[Republicanprofessor]

Millet's painting corresponds with the rise of the recognition of the proletariat and classism

Not to mention how much more GRAIN there is in Homer's works. Does this already show that socialism doesn't work?

Great pairing. I've never done that; I think I will the next time for sure. (Then maybe I can touch upon politics too. My students are quite liberal.)