Before the era of Sophists and Rhetoricians in ancient Athens, the education of children was undertaken by three different figures: the Paedotribis for physical exercise, the Kitharistis for music instruction, and the Grammatist for teaching language and arithmetic. In the 5th century BCE, a higher level of education beyond the basic one was introduced for […]
Every circle can also be understood as the intersection of a sphere. As a step from three to two dimensions.Conversely, from the curvature of a circle, imaginary spheres arise. Lenses with focal points at the centers of the spheres.As steps from two dimensions to three-dimensional space. The ratio of the radii of the Moon and
Polytonic is a writing system for the Greek language that includes diacritical marks indicating its prosody (intonation or melodicity). Its use for writing Modern Greek in official documents of the Greek state was abolished in 1982.In fact, however, the elements that have been abolished are two out of the three accents. The breathing marks, the
The first forms of the Greek alphabet appeared in the 8th century BCE (the earlier Linear B script was a different writing system for the Greek language).Initially, the Greeks used only uppercase letters (capital or majuscule script) and did not separate words from each other. The writing was continuous, from right to left. Later on,
The proportions of musical tones can be found in many different manifestations of nature, from the microcosm to the macrocosm. The Pythagoreans believed that music has hidden within it the harmony of the universe. They claimed that what we essentially hear when listening to music are the sacred proportions of nature.Pythagoras was the first to
By the “music of language,” we mean the vocal coloration, the melody, that characterizes each language or local dialect and allows us to recognize it when we hear it, even if we can’t understand it. For example, we can easily tell when someone is speaking Russian or Spanish, and Greeks can distinguish certain locals (e.g.,
Lógos, a ratio in mathematics, is a value that indicates the relation between two quantities. a/b = x Example for a = 6 and b = 3: 6/3 = 2.A proportion refers to the equality of two ratios. a/b = c/d = x. Example: The ratios 6/3 and 4/2 form a proportion because 6/3 =
