In this episode, part four of five on a series on Greek philosophy, mathematics, and science in the 5th century BC, we describe the earliest astronomical observations and calculations in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and their influence on ancient Greek astronomy; the various planets and star constellations found in Greek literature, as well as the origins of the Zodiac; the earliest Greek astronomical speculations of the universe found in Greek mythology (Homer and Hesiod) and in Pre-Socratic philosophy; the Pythagorean model of the universe put forward by Philolaus; and the astronomical calculations made by Oenopides and Meton
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/12/086-early-astronomy.html
Intro by Ahsan Irfan of the HistoryTeller podcast
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028 The Rise of Carthage
027 The Democracy of Cleisthenes
026 The Tyranny of the Peisistratids
025 The Reforms of Solon
024 Early Athens
023 THIS IS SPARTA
022 Sparta Ascendant
021 Athletics and the Panhellenic Games
020 The Intellectual Revolution
019 Poets and Wise Rulers
018 From Epic to Lyric
017 Archaic Art and Architecture
016 The "Age of Tyranny"
015 Colonization and the East
014 Colonization and the West
013 Hoplite Warfare
012 Oligarchs and Hesiod
011 From Oikos to Polis
010 Religion and Panhellenism
009 Greek Resurgence
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