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Contemplations on remarks made by Ovid in Metamorphoses, with an overlooked addition to the history of developments in the theory of evolution.Science; we’re at the forefront, or so we like to think. Our understanding of the world around us is considered to be the most in depth it has ever been. That’s why it is especially compelling when glimpses of what we regard as modern concepts flicker faintly through the eons to the eyes of a modern day reader. Zelda ocarina of time walkthrough. Indeed, the archaeological community is awash with peculiarities, all potentially proving there was some by-gone scientific understanding. We have claims of batteries existing two thousand years ago,a supposed optical lens as old as three thousand years,even an analogue computer capable of predicting astronomical events said to be in use around the third century B.C.has been discovered.
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There are plenty of out of place artefacts fueling the debate regarding lost knowledge, physical objects that show us exactly what past civilizations may have been capable of, but for all this show there is comparatively little tell. We have no known ancient equivalent on the Fundamentals of Energy Storage, no Optics for Dummies etched into clay tablets and no programming guide for the Antikythera Mechanism. This makes allusions to lost scientific knowledge in text all the more interesting. The ‘pop-history’ narrative relishes in the claim that “civilization was set back a thousand years by the burning of the Library of Alexandria” and whilst the given figure of a thousand years may be baseless, the comparatively few ancient texts that have come down to us from our entire understanding of ancient thought. So whilst there may have, at one time, been a vast collection of texts that we today would consider at least proto-scientific we have to make do instead with the sparse references available to us.
Amongst these early hints to scientific ruminations, none are more compelling than those of Ovid.Who exactly was Ovid? Publius Ovidius Naso was born to a respectable family in Sulmo in 43 B.C. He was educated in Rome to be shaped for office as per his father’s wishes, however he found himself more drawn to verse due to an apparently natural aptitude. After holding a couple of minor judicial positions out of duty rather than desire, he soon found immediate success with his first publication Amores (The Loves).Common amongst his early works ( Epistles and Heroines, the Art of Beauty and the Art of Love) were themes of love, lust and amatory; ideal subject matter for the licentious culture pervading Rome during his time but apparently no reflection of his own love life with two failed marriages prior to meeting his third wife, the only one whom he spoke of with any affection. His magnum opus, Metamorphoses, an epic of 15 books some twelve thousand lines, was published in 8 A.D.the same year he was banished by Augustus for his entanglement in the adultery of the Emperor’s granddaughter.In spite of persistent pleas of innocence he died in exile in Tomis 17 A.D.It is from Metamorphoses this article draws its primary observations. As the title suggests this work focused on the subject of transformation, tying together Greek mythology and Latin folklore ‘from the earliest beginnings of the world, down to his own times.’The universe is subdued from chaos to order, mortals are turned to stone; they become trees, stars and birds.
Amidst all these fanciful tales however there are the most striking commentaries on concepts not to be readdressed for hundreds, if not thousands of years.Evolutionary Science is a concept we tend to regard as fairly modern. Most point the finger to the work of Charles Darwin, citing his writings as part of the very foundation of this field of study. In reality the topic has a far earlier history with systems of adaptation dating back to the thirteenth century Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.The concept as we know it however really does become a far richer, bulkier topic from the 1700s onwards.