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The Brain has selected interesting
relevant
sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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The Vedic-Sanskrit scholars of ancient India and the Greeks, as well as other cultures, understood music to be mathematical.
First, we will try to read these works within the terms of their own culture, to see them as the original audience might have, and to gain insight into the mentality of the ancient Greeks through their literature.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Chapter three, "Ancient Myths of Cultural Dependency," actually concerns a much broader topic: the way historians such as Herodotus, Diodorus, Strabo, Eudoxus and Aristobulus created the myth that the Greeks owed their entire culture to the Egyptians.
An atlas showing the world of ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.
The focus is on learning the continents and the major bodies of the Ancient World in the Mediterranean region as well as the cultures and religions of the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Greeks.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The Celtic culture had no written language of their own, so most of what we know of them comes from the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and later the Irish Monks, who meticulously copied down old Irish legends and stories.
Cl ass 6 have been studying the Ancient Greeks and their culture.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Ancient Greeks practiced centuries of experimental geometry like Egypt and Babylonia had, and they absorbed the experimental geometry of both of those cultures.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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This gives us a perspective on how some Greeks understood themselves in relation to other, more ancient cultures; there seems to have some embarrassment on the part of the Greeks for not being known as an ancient people.
This is a great shame, not least for those interested in ancient Greek & Byzantine music, as given the contact between the 2 cultures during this time, & what is known of Greek music, some primary sources would be incredibly useful.
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