The Greco-Roman mental alliance is being formed
Oh what it must have been like back then. Like for films the silent era, the ancient texts that are preserved are only a fraction, how much more then must we treasure and hold them dear.
Today i finished my first Play by Aeschylus called The Persians, the ending was mysterious, the translators notes emphasized repeatedly how unsure the meanings were and there was a lot of music and dance involved which we can only imagine what was like.
And then i binge read the Fragments of Heraclitus, a guy who was around the same time as Buddha, Lao-Tzu and Confucius, he's the guy who said when you step in a river twice it's different, like going into the molecular area, or something like that.
And now i'm breezing through Plato's Apology, only 30 some minutes left, i've read this at least twice before, but it never gets old, Socrates' trial for infecting the Athenians with bad ideas.
Next pit stop will be some Aristotle, and then some Homer, and a little bit of Stoicism might be called for.
The wave right now isn't however the ancients, but the next wave will be, and it'll be so much fun familiarizing myself with it all, the poetry, the tragedies, comedies, philosophy and histories. Long long time ago, imagining how it all was, dreaming it, and losing oneself in it's world of myths, the birth of rationality, of the love of wisdom which is what the word philosophy means, how it was interpreted and demonized by the early church fathers, and from them we have fragments of things which otherwise we'd be completely oblivious to.
Much to be thankful for.
Today i finished my first Play by Aeschylus called The Persians, the ending was mysterious, the translators notes emphasized repeatedly how unsure the meanings were and there was a lot of music and dance involved which we can only imagine what was like.
And then i binge read the Fragments of Heraclitus, a guy who was around the same time as Buddha, Lao-Tzu and Confucius, he's the guy who said when you step in a river twice it's different, like going into the molecular area, or something like that.
And now i'm breezing through Plato's Apology, only 30 some minutes left, i've read this at least twice before, but it never gets old, Socrates' trial for infecting the Athenians with bad ideas.
Next pit stop will be some Aristotle, and then some Homer, and a little bit of Stoicism might be called for.
The wave right now isn't however the ancients, but the next wave will be, and it'll be so much fun familiarizing myself with it all, the poetry, the tragedies, comedies, philosophy and histories. Long long time ago, imagining how it all was, dreaming it, and losing oneself in it's world of myths, the birth of rationality, of the love of wisdom which is what the word philosophy means, how it was interpreted and demonized by the early church fathers, and from them we have fragments of things which otherwise we'd be completely oblivious to.
Much to be thankful for.
