Much of the cultural production of the ancient world, east and west, was based on the idea of reflecting aspects of the divine in human life and thought. Many social structures and institutions were based on this approach. The model for these things was was astronomy and the heavens, and the heavens were conceived of as a moving image of eternity, and eternity was understood to be coterminous with the Divine. Since it moved, it contained life and thought, and repaid the attention of man. We still live, work and think inside what is a scarcely changed neolithic temple, which is the sky.
The final word count is around 56 thousand words. Two of the chapters - 'The Greek Ontological Model in the 1st Millennium B.C.E', and 'Patterns of thought in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain', are quite large pieces of work (6k and 10k words respectively). The introduction and a chapter each from the three parts of the book are available via the list below.
The chapter list:
Introduction: The Interpretation of Ancient History
Part
One
Camera
Obscura: Marx, Aristotle & Ptolemy
Synoikismos
and the Origins of the Polis
Proskynesis,
and the Deification of Alexander
Part
Two
The
Greek Ontological Model in the 1st Millennium B.C.E.
Greece
and the cultural Impact of the Assyrian Empire
The
Threshold in Ancient Assyria
Symmetry
and Asymmetry in the Iconography of the Ancient Near East
Part
Three
Being
and Eternity in the Neolithic
Patterns
of thought in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain
The Mathematical Origins of the Megalithic Yard
The Mathematical Origins of the Megalithic Yard
What
We Have Lost, and How the Ancient Concept of the Cosmos Died
Marx
and Historicism
Publication date, June 30, 2020.
TY, May 5, 2019. Details updated May 27, July 5, and September 6 and 17, October 1, November 26, December 12, 2019, May 5 2020, and June 14 2020.. Updated October 10.
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