The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, Armand Marie Leroi, c. 2014.

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, Armand Marie Leroi, c. 2014.

Stagira: Aristotle's birthplace.

Pella, a region/county in Macedonia: birthplace of Alexander the Great.

Different words associated with "the lagoon."

• Pyrrha is a city on the eastern shore of the lagoon
• the lagoon: Kolpos Kalloni
• when Aristotle mentions the sea at Pyrrha, he usually refers to the euripos or 'strait." The euripos is the entrance of Kolpos Kalloni. The Lagoon is better described as a limnothalassa or "lake sea."
• So,
• limno: lake
• thalassa: sea

From page, 15:

Kolpos Kalloni divides these two worlds. Sheltered from open sea by a narrow, winding strait, [the lagoon] is 13 miles long and 6 miles wide, and cuts the island nearly in two.  It is often called a lagoon, but it is really an inland sea of the type that oceanographers call a bahira. It is one of the richest bodies of water in the Eastern Aegean. Nutrients flow down the rivers that run from its surrounding hills and feed the phytoplankton that, in the early spring, turn its waters green.

el-Bahira: the little sea

It appears that bahira is most often associated with a coastal lagoon in Tunis. It is hard to find internet references to bahira. 

In comparison, Flathead Lake in Montana is nearly 30 miles in length, 15 miles in width.

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Re-Reading: April 2020

doxographical, page 19

eikōs mythos: a plausible tale, p. 26

Chapter X

how did Aristotle become the first true scientist after being taught by that doofus, Plato -- p 27 -- that is the mystery of Aristotle.

348 / 347 BC: Aristotle suddenly left Athens --

• left Plato's academy
• unknown why

Aristotle had close connections to the Macedonian court --

• Amyntas' son, Philip II -- attacking Greece
• In Athens, Demosthenes is rousing citizens to new heights of xenophobia; Aristotle gets out while he can;

Troad peninsula (Troy) -- opposite Lesbos, p. 28

After leaving Athens, Aristotle heads to Assos; opens academy;

Assos: cross-roads of Athenian, Macedonia, and Persian power;

From there he flees to Macedonia.

bouleuterion, p. 30: 

also translated as council house, assembly house, and senate house, was a building in ancient Greece which housed the council of citizens (βουλή, boulē) of a democratic city state.

Strait of Mytilene -- at its narrowest -- 9 km wide

Aristotle and bride: Lesbos -- there for two years; described it as his honeymoon of his life.

Tyrtamos: 13 years junior to Aristotle (Aristotle about 38 y/o at the time).

Re-named Theophrastus: father of botany

• Enquiries into Plants
• Explanations of Plants

Aristotle: zoology
Theophrastus: botany

together: the founding fathers of science.

Plato's Academy (Athens): the Lyceum --> Aristotle --> Theophrasus.

Piraeus: had I not read Shakespeare, I would not have recognized Piraeus -- the port of Athens, p. 34.

Piraeus --> across the Aegean, 12 hour trip --> Lesbos, Port Chios

Mt Olymbos

Cape Malea, Lesbos, Assos.

Achladeri: ancient town of Pyrrha.

Gulf of Kolloni

Gulf of Gera: east end of island, behind the city of Mytilene.

Fish:
perkē: perka
skorpaina; skorpiomana
kephalos: kephalos
sparos: sparos

This author really thinks Plato was a doofus, p. 42 / p. 43







 
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