#ancient greek philosophy

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[elvirable]

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

[november52020]

ok this is gonna be an unnecessarily esoteric post but idgaf so lets go. izzy's evolution and character development just perfectly reflects the heraclitean concept of γιγνομαι so well and it's making me go feral. for people who aren't as familiar with ancient western philosophy as someone who has studied classics for more than 2/3 of their life, γιγνομαι (transliterated as gignomai), is a concept of αρχη (being, becoming) being fluid and ever-changing. heraclitus illustrates this in fragment #40 (because heraclitus was one of the very first ancient greek philosophers, not much of his work survives) where he says "you cannot step twice into the same river; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you". obviously this is translated into english, and was probably originally translated from ancient greek into arabic during the golden age of Islam because heraclitus was from ephesus, which is on the west coast of modern day turkey, and so some of the meaning was lost over time. however it still shows an interesting concept when applied to our number one poor little meow meow izzy hands. water is used to clean both physically and metaphorically. as with the river analogy, izzy has been consistently washing away the walls he has put up around himself. he has also been constantly changing throughout the whole show, developing as a person while going through intense experience after experience. this is one of the reasons why ep 6 is so special to me because, like me and all of us, izzy is changing and evolving as a person. ok idk where im going with this lol, esoteric post over lmao.

[greekmythcomix]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - a summary comic

(Originally for ClassicsTober 2021, prompt: CAVE)

[tagitables]

To the Sun , Proklos (ancient greek philosopher)

[amberpamba24]

“and if beauty is terror,” said julian “then what is desire? we think we have many desires. But we only have one. What is it?”

“to live,” said camilla

“To live forever.” said bunny, chin cupped in hand

-the secret history

[silverbridge-harbor]

squids and other such cephalopods were invented in ancient greece by the now-forgotten philosopher Tentacles

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Charles H. Kahn Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology.

A classic on Anaximander and the early ancient Greek philosophy and cosmology!

[vic-ketterer-lachance]

𝗔𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀

•Socrates & Confucius: An Encounter

•Odium of Herode

music hall

•Temple of Athena Nike

•Temple of Erechthion

East dedicated to Athena

North dedicated to Poseidon

•Parthenon

•bench sculpture

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[lionofchaeronea]

A Presocratic Dose of Skepticism

Xenophanes, fr. 15 Diels-Kranz But if cattle and horses and lions had hands To write with and carry out the works that men do, Horses would draw their gods’ forms just like horses And cattle like cattle, and they’d make their bodies Of just the same sort that each one had his shape. ἀλλ᾽ εἰ χεῖρας ἔχον βόες <ἵπποι τ᾽> ἠὲ λέοντες ἢ γράψαι χείρεσσι καὶ ἔργα τελεῖν ἅπερ ἄνδρες, ἵπποι μέν θ᾽ ἵπποισι βόες δέ τε βουσὶν ὁμοίας καί <κε> θεῶν ἰδέας ἔγραφον καὶ σώματ᾽ ἐποίουν τοιαῦθ᾽ οἷόν περ καὐτοὶ δέμας εἶχον <ἕκαστοι>.

Xenophanes (from Thomas Stanley, The history of philosophy: containing the lives, opinions, actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of every Sect, illustrated with effigies of divers of them [1655])

[rusty25]

literally Plato

[cinematic-literature]

The Politician S01E02 (The Harrington Commode)

Book title

The Pituitary Body (1912) by Harvey Cushing

Keith’s Rifles for Large Game (1946) by Elmer Keith

Selected Dialogues by Plato

Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical (1858) by Henry Gray

Greek Medicine in Rome (1921) by Clifford Allbutt

[lilithreb0rn]

…our humanness is the ultimate talisman, and ultimate state of perfection as it is our one core resonance that allows the unalikeness present in each and every one of us to grow, and to live, and to embrace the inalienable proportionality of life in all its forms.

[mediocratesofsamos]

Spiral into sleep, where dreams will find you as quickly as they can. There, your world shall be as blissful as you wish. But when you wake, do not dwell on your slumbers, for they are the purest fantasy.

- Mediocrates, Μεμολογου