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The Agreement

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I read a lot of ancient Greek philosophy at a different stage in my life. The earliest recorded writers – Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes – they all hung out in Miletus (then Greek but now in Modern Turkey), which was the commercial sister city of Dydima, the religious and mystical haven of priests, worshippers, debauchery and the arts. Miletus was a port, though now lies many kilometers inland (global warming will return it to the oceanside).

The two cities were connected perhaps in the first century CE by a sacred 12 mile road. Dydima was the site of the unfinished but magnificent Apollo Temple.

Early philosophers in these times were the first Westerners to put to words the concept of dialectic or interaction between opposing forces. Asians had done it several thousand years before.

In Nietzsche’s famous work The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music he depicts Hellenistic culture of this time grappling with the competing forces of destruction and construction.

In a famous bit of writing I was unable to source as if this moment, one of these early philosophers refers to the beach in this way, and I paraphrase:

"We see the ocean and the rock and sense their agreement"

Have a great Thursday everyone.

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