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In response to
"as Don Draper was fond of noting, the Greeks invented the word "nostalgia" -- nm"
by
hollywood big shot
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Slate sez . . . it started in Mesopotamia
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"So let’s just skip to the beginning—to Mesopotamia, when humanity began writing for the first time. Eckart Frahm, a professor of Assyriology at Yale University, says a curious trend shows up in the old cuneiform tablets: At the beginning of writing, around 3500 B.C., nobody pens anything nostalgic. But after about two centuries, as records pile up and scholars read what their ancestors wrote, that changes. “Then,” he says, “there is this idea that there must have been an age where things were really perfect.”
There it is. As soon as we started telling our own story, we became seduced by it."
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