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Greek
splendour
& disturbance by
Pericles
Anaxagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle

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Sophocles
Euripides
456 - 345 B.C.

art
building ~
criticism ~
discipline ~
evolution

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and
so
on
...
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~?~

The
century and
a half that
followed the defeat of Persia
was one
of very great splendour
for the Greek
civilisation.

TRUE
that Greece was torn by
a desperate struggle
for the ascendancy between Athens, Sparta and other states
{the Peloponnesian War from 431 to 404 B.C.}
and that in 338 B.C.
the Macedonians became virtually
masters of Greece:
nevertheless
during this period the thought
and the creative and artistic impulse
of the Greeks
rose to levels that made their achievement
a lamp to mankind for
all the rest of
history?

~?~





The head and centre
of this mental activity was Athens.
For over thirty years {466 to 428 B.C.}
Athens was dominated by a man of great vigour and liberality of mind,
Pericles, who set himself to rebuild the city
from the ashes to which the Persians
had reduced it
........

The
beautiful ruins
that still glorify Athens today
are chiefly the remains of THIS great effort?
An d he did not simply rebuild a material Athens.
HE rebuilt Athens intellectually!

HE
gathered about him
not only architects and sculptors but also poets,
dramatists, philosophers
and teachers
.............

Herodotus
came to Athens
to recite his history {438 B.C.}
...

Anaxagoras
came with the beginnings
of a scientific description of the sun
and the stars
....................

Aeschylus,
Sophocles and
Euripides one after the other
carried the Greek drama to its highest levels
of beauty and
nobility
........

~?~

The
impetus Pericles
gave to the
intellectual life
of Athens
lived on after
his death,
and in spite of the fact
that the peace of Greece was now broken by the
Peloponnesian War and a long and wasteful struggle for 'ascendancy'
was beginning
.............

Indeed
the darkling
of the political horizon seems for a time
to have quickened rather than discouraged
men's minds?

~?~

Already
long before the time of Pericles
the particular freedom of Greek institutions
had given great importance to
skill in discussion!

DECISION
rested neither with king nor with priest
but in the assemblies of the people
or of leading men
...

ELOQUENCE
and ABLE ARGUMENT
became very desirable accomplishments therefore,
and a class of teachers arose,
the Sophists,
who undertook to strengthen young men
in these arts
...

But
one cannot
Reason without Matter,
and Knowledge followed in the wake
of SPEECH?!

The activities
and rivalries of these sophists led very naturally
to an acute examination of style,
of methods of thought and of
the validity of
arguments!

A group of brilliant young men
gathered around Socrates ........

In the end
Socrates was executed
for 'disturbing people's minds'
{399 B.C.}, he was condemned
after the dignified fashion of the Athens of
those days to drink in his own house and among his own friends
a poisonous draught made from hemlock,
but the disturbance of peole's minds
went on in spite of his
condemnation?!

HIS
YOUNG MEN
CARRIED ON
HIS TEACHING
.......

~?~


Up to this
very day {here & now}
our own myDi-readers and -writers
sometimes manage to make themselves
and each other think
by asking questions and
trying to give
answers?

And
doesn't
the right insight
quite often lead to
the proper
action?

~!?!~

I'm tired by now
and take my {eureka}aha-capsule and anti-biotics
for the last time today
half an hour before the last supper:
raw herrings with onions,
garlic, radish,
Indian cress, some
brown bread
and a glass of wine to remember
Socrates, Gautama &
Yeshu
...

Salaam/sjaloom
and sweet dreams
tonight!

See you
tomorrow with
less sorrow?

"Mot the Hoople"

Ch@i 'alsvanouds'
etc. etc.
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