Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: High Middle Ages, Lysistrata
5 May 2016
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A: pythagoras (570-500) spent most of life on the tip of italy. Greatest discovery was in music: octave 2:1; fth: 3:2; fourth 4:3. Astounded by extraordinary simplicity of concordance principles decides math holds key to all knowledge; all is mathematics . B: zeno of elea (ca 450 bc): paradoxes (to show that motion is impossible change and motion are just illusions) The dichotomy paradox: explains why you"ll never be able to get anywhere because in between where you are and where you"re going, there is a different point. Arrow paradox: any object at any moment, can only occupy the space that it can occupy. !1: classical or high period: concern with geography mapping the known world source of nile. Aristotle (380s - 320s): organized sciences wrote on everything. Aristophanes writes in the period of the peloponnesian war (431 - 404) polis, city- states not uni ed country; hundreds of self-suf cient states.
