Classical Studies 1000 Midterm: condensed lecture notes for classics test 3.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

The milesians: active in the 6th century bc first known philosophers around coast of asia minor, physical or natural philosophers called the physikoi by aristotle. They developed the idea of the arche ( first principle") debate whether milesians used the term arche: all matters come from one principle. Largely legendary/folk figure for typical super intellectual or scientist. Hittites: greeks like to tell stories so they trace philosophy back to thales. Idea of opposites basic feature of the greek mind opposites of the world that create a dynamic process that creates reality idea of generation and corruption. Idea that there is some basic material from which things come and into which things decay happens according to necessity. Classics test 3 condensed notes february 2015: pupil of anaximander, air was his arche everything is air that has been solidified to different levels.