Maria Michela Sassi > Quotes

“A todos los efectos, la medicina también constituye un campo de investigación para aquellos que estudiaban la naturaleza”
― Maria Michela Sassi, Los inicios de la filosofía en Grecia

“Homer used two adjectives to describe aspects of the colour blue: kuaneos, to denote a dark shade of blue merging into black; and glaukos, to describe a sort of ‘blue-grey’, notably used in Athena’s epithet glaukopis, her ‘grey-gleaming eyes’. He describes the sky as big, starry, or of iron or bronze (because of its solid fixity). The tints of a rough sea range from ‘whitish’ (polios) and ‘blue-grey’ (glaukos) to deep blue and almost black (kuaneos, melas). The sea in its calm expanse is said to be ‘pansy-like’ (ioeides), ‘wine-like’ (oinops), or purple (porphureos). But whether sea or sky, it is never just ‘blue’. In fact, within the entirety of ancient Greek literature you cannot find a single pure blue sea or sky.”
― Maria Michela Sassi

“Laks, A., and C. Louguet, eds. 2002. Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique? / What Is Presocratic Philosophy? Lille: Presses Universitaires de Septentrion.”
― Maria Michela Sassi, The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece