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The Philosophers of
ancient Ionia
Chapter 2: Homer and Despina
in the City of Ancients, meeting
great Greek Poets
Despina woke up in an ancient city and she met an old man who introduced
himself as Homer. Despina was very surprised to see him and start asking him
about the city and his presence in that place. Could he really be the great poet
Homer from ancient Greece?
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So Despina and Homer start walking in the streets of the city!
The first thing to see was a big theater where they saw three great Greek
tragedians, Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides, preparing a new drama play.
Soon, Aristophanes, a Comic dramatist came to their company!
Where are we now? And who
are these people?
Do you see this theater? Is
identical with the Small Theater of
Epithavros. It is our favorite place
to watch a drama play!
I am amazed! Everybody knows
these poets! Their plays are still
the audience’s favorites in
Greece!
Sophocles, Aeschylus and
Euripides come from the mainland
of Greece, not Ionia. And
Aristophanes too.
Welcome little girl! We are in a hurry.
We prepare a new drama! Will you
come and see it?
I am very happy to meet you all!
I will definitely watch your play
when you are ready!
Well, every month they prepare a
new play! Sometimes they take
ideas from my poems but I am too
modest to say that in public!
Despina was very happy to talk with the poets about there new play! The
subject was about the creation of the universe by the Gods. Homer
suggested that they should ask help from his friend Hesiodos. Hesiodos
wrote a great poem “Theogony” to tell how universe was made.
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born!
Despina was very curious to learn about the beliefs of ancient
scientists. At school she had read the poem of Hesiodos. At the
beginning there was Uranus (the sky) and Gaia (the earth). They got
married and had sons: the Ecatogxires, the Cyclops, the Titans. But this
is mythology, stories for little children. Despina wants to know about the
scientists!
Ok Despina, let’s go to
Friends of Militos Club!
Please, Homer, will you take me to
speak with real scientists?
So, Despina and Homer continued their walk in the streets of the City on
Ancients, to find the “Friends of Militos” Club.
Militos was one of the greatest cities in Ancient Ionia. The cities called Ionian
in historical times were twelve in number. These were (from south to north)
Miletus, Myus, Priene, Ephesus, Colophon, Lebedus, Teos, Erythrae,
Clazomenae and Phocaea, together with Samos and Chios. And last, Smyrna,
which was originally an Aeolic colony.
Important philosophers are said to originate from Miletus. These include
Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes. Heraclitus was from Ephesus,
Anaxagoras was from Clazomenae and Aristarchus and Pythagoras were from
the island of Samos.
All these great philosophers and
scientists from ancient times worked on
the foundations of today’s science and
people all over the world remember
them
for
their
theories
about
philosophy, mathematics and physics!
And now, imagine these ancient
scientists, all together in the City of
Ancients! Despina was excited to meet
them and talk with them!
I am so excited! I wish my friend Mateusz
was with us here! When I go back and tell
him, he will not believe me!
FRIENDS OF MILITOS
I think IHere
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are Despina!
about it!!!
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ready?your
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are going in!
So, Despina closed her eyes and the very next minute Mateusz was there!
And not just that, now, both of them looked like ancient Greek children!
FRIENDS OF MILITOS