Chris Bowley’s Reviews > Greek Legacy: Classical Origins of the Modern World > Status Update
Chris Bowley
is 66% done
8:Religion-elusive,hard to characterise;no sacred text;ritual duties for all;no official religion,Polis not fully secular;preDorian chthonic earth goddesses,mat->pat shift-Athena fully from a male,Euripedes casts females;sacrifices-Gods no eat meat,people do-kill/eat gain power-chthonic;ari-nature as sacred,give back to nature what is taken;ecstasy-out of body state;Socrates-sacrifices silly,Ari-holds ppl to together
— Nov 10, 2022 11:38AM
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Chris Bowley
is 99% done
12:Perfection-today's world not serious like Ancient Greek,don't adopt trite-destined to fall,people can't resist crap;what you see changes you-influence,all about improving life;contemplative life-commitment for the sake of knowing,not to obtain;Epicurus-avoid bad parts of daily life,apatheia;Stoics-human rights;Greek elitism-trivialises other life,not inclusive;romanticised.
— Nov 14, 2022 02:22PM
Chris Bowley
is 92% done
11:City life-<70k citizens+~70k slaves,not diverse;Polis is identity;individuality=good e.g Gods,heroes;individualism=bad,against state, outlaw;hellene v barb is culture,not genetic,civic life every day all year;social creatures who affiliate ideas to laws;ARI'S FRIENDSHIPS-pleasure
— Nov 13, 2022 01:02PM
Chris Bowley
is 83% done
10:Morality-reward & punishment,Ring of Gyges; dike originally referred to windy path Gods get you to follow;Plato-rational & passion stallion;ari-accidental good not good-purpose>consequence;tragedy-bad things to good people;know yourself then know what to do;burial v important,right thing even v king-Antigone;immoral pleasure-tyrants(no critics),stops personal dev;ari-distractions biggest threat to state.
— Nov 12, 2022 02:53PM
Chris Bowley
is 75% done
9:Char & personality-arete;ari-bad man cannot do good(accidental doesn't count);Helen,self obsessed=bad;see clown before he acts;herod&thuc-char through history,wars won&lost by character;Golden Mean;animals not virtuous as cannot choose right action on principle;LEARNING SHAPES CHARACTER,must keep learning/ex-2nd nature;character is destiny? Not fates but nature leads to future.
— Nov 11, 2022 12:18PM
Chris Bowley
is 58% done
7:Statecraft-creates civic communities,political science,polis,dialogues;worst man outside polis;tyranny of the maj-maj envy the elite few/appeal to mob-threaten freedom(freedom isn't democracy);slaves-buy freedom,bankers often former slaves-Pasion;Polis as living culture,contribute to it,organic;Constitution of the Athenians preserved.
— Nov 08, 2022 03:07PM
Chris Bowley
is 50% done
6:Law-ubiqitous;Solon-Greek cannot enslave Greek;try to minimise corruption;earlier law was fratric justice-tribal not individual,group responsibe;only Athenian-born can be citizen;some slaves had slaves;Hellenes to rule barbarians-Aristotle.
— Nov 06, 2022 02:37PM
Chris Bowley
is 41% done
5:Hippocratics-Hippocrates father of medicine;graphic Homer;Doctor as early profession;practical,if works without knowing why-ok;secular-not religious med like Egypt;not known organs are systems;psych disords seen as medical;Galen-philos doctor,body humors;rational mind linked to health;outside influence can be very bad-Hellenes decide what is good taste-music,nature,right buildings-good organs but unhealthy of mind.
— Nov 05, 2022 02:27PM
Chris Bowley
is 32% done
4:Science-some pre Greek-haulage,mummy;pyramidos honey cakes to winners 'takes the cake';Hellenic-laws that govern things;Pythag-reduction of relationships to universal laws with maths;algebra 250BC;Ari-many subjects ok,knowledge for knowledge,empiricism;Ari problems corrected 100(0)s years later;Democritus-atoms;Archimedes-specific weight,dis water;Science as teleological.
— Nov 04, 2022 11:58AM
Chris Bowley
is 24% done
3:Scholarship-know oneself;Plato's academy,PP war,nostoi-return to past ages;Aristotle's lyceum-first uni;scholarship def-more than data transfer;pythag-1st phil & veggie,perfecting life;ari-broad sub matter;knowledge readily available=opportunity;xenophobic from meeting xenos,low lid cultures w single truth;Alex wants world to look Greek but under control-not Hellenic spirit;can't allow passion to overtake reason.
— Nov 03, 2022 11:20AM
Chris Bowley
is 16% done
2:Beautiful as most harmonious,numbers right;ari metaphysics;power of visual scene;Zeus flood after prometheus=noah;600-500BC development of Hellenic art,proportion,harmony,maths based;Alex spread of hellenism-10000troops marry Persian women;hellenic art about human life,even God statues doing human things;know thyself in terms what we do and build.
— Nov 02, 2022 02:57PM
