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ECHOES from the
GREEK BRONZE AGE
An
Anthology of Greek Thought In the Classical Age
(Hardcover - 1 Nov 2010)
Robert D. Morritt
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“Echoes from the Greek Bronze
Age" is the result of much that the author has read over several years.
It is an observation of the thoughts and works of early thinkers,
 An
overview of the contents reveals the following subjects:
Simonedes ‘Art of Memory’, The
Loci. dwells on the use of visual objects, and how to retain them mentally as
an aid to improve concentration. The proponent of this art was the hermetic
Giordano Bruno, a Dominican monk who left the convent and wandered throughout
Europe relating the secrets of the Art to all who would listen to him
including the King of France. Unfortunately he burned at the stake for heresy
in 1600
Hecataeus is featured with an observation of
his survey of the ‘then known’ world.
Xenophanes, his account of fossils “shells
are found in the midst of the land and among
the mountains, that in the
quarries of Syracuse” imprints of a fish and of seals had been found,” This
confirmed that he was the forerunner of dating objects by stratification in
geological deposits.,
Anaxagoras ponders ..“Earth is condensed out of these things that are separated.
For water is separated from the clouds, and earth from the water.”
Xenophon –‘Hellenica , presents vivid
descriptions of a nautical battle with the Athenians.’ The Athenians, finding themselves besieged by land and
sea, were in sore perplexity what to do.
Without ships, without allies, without provisions, the belief gained
hold upon them that there was no way of escape. They must now, in their turn,
suffer what they had themselves inflicted upon others;
Xeonophanes; His ‘sayings’, as evidenced in the following;” When
Empedokles said to him (Xenophanes) that the wise man was not to be found, he
answered: Naturally, for it would take a wise man to recognize a wise man. “.
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