Enlightenment historiography of the Greeks
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
1:02¶ 3
“Wow, you snuck that one in there real good. Well, what happens is something that historians and philosophers have labeled the presocratics. It sounds…”
2:38¶ 6
“You’re right, presocratic is a name given by men of the Enlightenment and those who followed, because Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are their great…”
10:22¶ 34
“So when they saw Greeks abandoning or at least downplaying and not caring a whole lot about the gods of Homer and Hesiod, the…”
194Hadassah, Queen of Persia
27 May 2024
53:17¶ 174
“Then you get to the Greeks and we rewrite the ideals of the Enlightenment back into Greek history and say, “Since being rational since…”
53:58¶ 175
“So we rewrite the histories forward in terms of our complete misunderstanding of the Greeks. We look at every victory of the Greeks over…”