HISTORY 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Greco-Persian Wars, Atomism, Satyr Play
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Leucippus (5th century) and democritus of abdera (5th century) Small primary bodies that make up everything. Move through an infinite void in which they collide and thus create. Applies the rationalism by the pre-socratics to the study of greece/greek culture via a vis the barbarians , namely persia both to commemorate their cultural achievements and to preserve their memory for posterity. Though born after the persian wars, he would write his account based on interviews, oral tradition from those who fought, and travel. But still considers the divine as a force in history. Egypt as a culture of greater antiquity than the greeks, whose gods might be similar/same and a culture this often depicted as the exact opposite \ Narratives on other distant cultures, even as far as india. Herodotus was often referred to as the father of history and the father of anthropology in the post medieval academic/intellectual cultures of europe.
