HPS210H1 Lecture 3: HPS210 Lecture 3
7 Sep 2016
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Classical greece was a relatively rich society, exporting olive oil and wine that grew up in the shadow of the persian empire. By 500 bce the persian empire included macedonia and several greek islands. It was very common for people from greece to travel around the persian empire. 490 bce darius tried to invade and was defeated at the battle of marathon, and made this less friendly between the greeks and persia. At this time, the greeks were taking in knowledge; pythagoras is famously supposed to have traveled to egypt to learn math just shows how the interaction did happen. Dealing with his ideas really shapes hellenistic (that is, ancient greek) thought. His idea: there is no such thing as nothing. Change is thus, impossible since nothing goes to something. If this is false, then it cannot exist. Nothing cannot exist: this is because the word lacks reference.
