Jul
24
Classical Metaphors
July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Lee T. Pearcy has written a fine little review of Robin Waterfield’s recent Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), said review appearing in the online Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews (2007.07.41). He begins with some observations about the intersection between classical scholarship and contemporary culture:
This [...]
Jul
24
Space and Concepts of Space
July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In his Physics, Aristotle, famously, denies that there can be such a thing as an actually infinite magnitude. That seems plausible enough, but he goes on to deny that anything can be actually infinite, which is a slightly more problematic claim. The most notorious example of the infinite, the continuum, was only potentially infinite for [...]
