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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. “.