2014-01-19
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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West.
This is Philosophisethis.
For the last several episodes, we've been talking about the Hellenistic Age.
And as you know by now,
this was a period of uncertainty and many times chaos for the average citizen living in the Mediterranean Sea region.
But the Hellenistic Age is just one segment of time that's part of a much larger whole that's known as Classical Antiquity.
Classical Antiquity refers to the events in the Mediterranean Sea region, you know, Greece,
Italy, North Africa, etc., during the entire span of time from around 800 BC,
right when the first Greek epic poem started being written,
to about the first few centuries AD, that whole span of time.
The end of antiquity is really marked by the ascendancy of Christianity and the fall of the Roman Empire,
which obviously didn't really happen in tandem or on a specific date.
Now, if you've listened to the podcast from the beginning, we've almost covered this entire time period.
We started with the pre-Socratics,
some of the earliest of them like Thales and Pythagoras living in what historians would call early antiquity.
And we made it all the way to the end of the Hellenistic Age now,