The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Ancients
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Athens in the Year Five, Two, Nine
Athens in the year five, two, nine. Why is this year so significant in the whole discussion that we've been talking about to day? At this time there was what you call the school in athens - and when you think of athens, you think of philosophy. There were philosophers who saw themselves as preserving greek philosophy in what they called a golden chain from the age of plato. This is the moment that pagan, as I would call it, free philosophy ended in europe. And they left, and they went to persia. But continued was christian philosophy, which i would argue is something different.
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