Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: High Middle Ages, Lysistrata
4 Mar 2016
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Greatest discovery was in music: octave 2:1, fifth 3:2, fourth 4:3. Astounded by extraordinarly simplicity of concordance principles. Decides math holds key to all knowledge all is mathematics : zeno of elea. Paradoxes (to show that motion is impossible - change and motion are just illusions) Arrow paradox: how can an arrow ever move if it can only occupy the area that it is occupying. We know things are not the case, but we cannot explain why things are not the case: classical or high period - aristotle. Writes in period of peleponesian war (431-404) - polis, city-states - not unified country. Lysistrata composed around 415-412 bc, probably after 413 when news of destruction of athenian fleet in sicily became known- long enough time that war disaster could be treated comically; peleponesian war already about 20 years old. Athenians still thought they could win or at least stalemate. During war time *stratego* takes control in athens democracy.
