Weekly Topics: ‘Presocratics’

Weekly Response Topic: Discuss one of the following:

Discuss 1) Hesiod: Hesiod’s Theogony is considered to be an early cosmology (explanation for the origin and evolution of the world). It takes some patience and a careful ey, but discuss what is ‘scientific’ or ‘nature study’ about Hesiod’s writing? 2) Rihill: He provides a rich window on the experiences of the Greek philosophers. What were the greatest challenges of teaching philosophy in the Ancient Greek world, and how did the philosophers meet them?

reading
1. textbook page 39-61

2. – T. E. Rihll, “Teaching and Learning in Classical Athens,” Greece & Rome , Second Series, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Oct., 2003), pp. 168-190.

3. Hesiod, Theogony, in The Works of Hesiod (Cambridge : Chadwyck-Healey, 1992.) The Theogony is at the bottom of the eBook contents list. (Read enough to understand Hesiod’s style and the works importance for the history of science.)
You can read Hesiod from Page 127 and from the page 127 is the content of Theogony.

4. Please read the lecture sildes

I need at least three resource citation