Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ung County, F. M. Cornford, Stoicism

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

In the early period, the greeks felt that things were nite, they didn"t not think of the the idea of in nite until 5th century. Delphi was believed to be the centre of the world. The kosmos is in some sense alive, and all of its features are cosmic beings" (e. g. , The basic features of the world are produced in stories of sexual unions and births: creation occurs through procreation. The gods are part of creation and so, in some sense, are subject to its rules. Indeed, very rst of all chaos came into being, and then. The rst beings mentioned are chaos, earth (gaia), tartarus, and eros. It appears that the text is not being systematic: the rst beings evoke the familiar world. The sky, so important to the succession myth, is introduced later, and said to be a. Stoics: = what is poured out (i. e. , water)