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kiwihellenist.blogspot.com | ||
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sheseeksnonfiction.blog
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| | | | | Being a true fan of Carl Sagan means calling out the times in Cosmos when he was (unintentionally) inaccurate, Eurocentric, and antitheistic. | |
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talesoftimesforgotten.com
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| | | | | The philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who lived in the early fifth century AD, is one of the most famous historical women of classical antiquity. Unfortunately, basically everything you have ever heard about her is complete fiction. | |
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talesoftimesforgotten.com
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| | | | | Nearly everyone loves music and the ancient Greeks loved music as much as anyone. Many of the poems that have survived to us from ancient Greece are actually song lyrics that were originally meant to be sung. Unfortunately, nearly all ancient Greek music has been irretrievably lost; no one alive will ever hear the original ... Continue reading "What Did Ancient Greek Music Sound Like?" | |
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im1776.com
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| | | Throughout his intellectual career, the French philosopher Michel Foucault pursued two goals: a critique of the Enlightenment, and a 'return' to the Greeks. These two projects, or rather two faces of his life's work of which the thought of Immanuel Kant seemed to him to be the clearest expression, were understood by Foucault's sharpest observers on the left, such as Jurgen Habermas, as a new form of conservatism, following in the wake of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Foucault's chief philosophical inspirations. | ||
