An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
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An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
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Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#2Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#3Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
True. To say nothing of the philosophy. Reading Plutarch's essays now. I find it soothing and inspirational.
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#4Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#5Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
That smacks of the infamous "gap left by the dark ages" chart, and doesn't really account for the drop in innovation across the Roman world in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, when large parts of the empire (indeed, notably excluding Greece) were not Christian or minority-Christian. Unless you are supposing some crucial difference between Hellenism and its Roman adaptation?
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#6Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
Such claims require more support, lest we go another turn on the religious flamewar unmerry-go-round.
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#7Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
Entirely false. It is Rome that absorbed Greece civilization.
You need to study history instead of showing your hate for Christianity.
Http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_in_the_Roman_era
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#8There's an ongoing youtube series about recreating the Antikythera Mechanism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not wars that stopped Greece from further advancement. It was religion. Same happened to all of the Western world in the middle ages. Since Christianity took over they did everything in their power to fight science. And up to this day they still do.
That smacks of the infamous "gap left by the dark ages" chart, and doesn't really account for the drop in innovation across the Roman world in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, when large parts of the empire (indeed, notably excluding Greece) were not Christian or minority-Christian. Unless you are supposing some crucial difference between Hellenism and its Roman adaptation?
Just wondering, what was the reason for this? I would assume that the peace brought by the Pax Romana alongside with the employment of military devices such as ballistae in the roman army would increase innovation instead.
Re: An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time (2006)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That smacks of the infamous "gap left by the dark ages" chart, and doesn't really account for the drop in innovation across the Roman world in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, when large parts of the empire (indeed, notably excluding Greece) were not Christian or minority-Christian. Unless you are supposing some crucial difference between Hellenism and its Roman adaptation?
Just wondering, what was the reason for this? I would assume that the peace brought by the Pax Romana alongside with the employment of military devices such as ballistae in the roman army would increase innovation instead.
There was a discussion about this issue last month, where i wrote out a fairly detailed reply and gave a good reference to learn more: