CLASSICS 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Epimenides, Pre-Socratic Philosophy
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Presocratic philosophers: philosophers that came before socrates; a modern division before socrates; thought of as a group of people that are difficult to talk about and understand because of a lack of much surviving evidence. The language of serious thought is poetry, not prose. Looking at real magicians in ogden vs. in gager or betz. This will show us a more critical view of magic, compared to the view we get directly from magicians that show how important and positive magic is to them. These stories are very often written by people who are writing about magicians that lived long before them. American cultural examples of exaggerating stories about people who have a reputation: Specialties cross boundaries that modern day would find to be too distinct for that to be possible. They could be related to mathematical or scientific elements. Pythagoras is said to have a golden thigh. Reference to being made by the blacksmith god.
