Enjoying this thank you! I just wanted to add to your wonderful quote involving "The Athenian Plague", what a huge thing it was as Athens collapsed, the great Athenian experiment in creating Democracy, The Vote, Trial by Jury, Logic, Theatre, and so much more, crowded behind huge walls in a Civil War against the Spartans & their allies, the Plague was spread by their fleet bringing grains & food , it spread like wildfire in the city walls as Thucydides who lived through it, also noted, it began with fevered heads & inflamed eyes, unquenchable thirst with severe diarrhea, people crawling into water systems to drink and die, 1/3 of the Athenians, died. It took their president, Pericles, 6 months to die. And led to the surrender of Athens to the Spartans, in 404 B.C. and the loss of their Navy, their empire, their wealth, the trial & death of Sokrates because he was critical & somehow responsible for this major defeat, and the loss of their Democracy & Constitution. End of an era, but not the critical reasoning skills & literature spread through Hellenism. Ideas that created new forms of the inquiry of nature, of medicine, of so many things! But democracy ends as a new age of kings & emperors developed. . . . Their epidemic changed the course of history, but their ideas spread to the British House of Commons, to the United States House of "Representatives", and to the fields of historical inquiry & biological studies. Thank you for including history; whatever microbe probably bacterial, that caused "The Athenian Plague" one of the best recorded in antiquity but one that also blamed and put to death, their greatest philosopher, Sokrates, is a lesson for us all.
Thaks Dr. Barker, I enjoyed your lectures, Greetings from La Paz Bolivia
Enjoying this thank you! I just wanted to add to your wonderful quote involving "The Athenian Plague", what a huge thing it was as Athens collapsed, the great Athenian experiment in creating Democracy, The Vote, Trial by Jury, Logic, Theatre, and so much more, crowded behind huge walls in a Civil War against the Spartans & their allies, the Plague was spread by their fleet bringing grains & food , it spread like wildfire in the city walls as Thucydides who lived through it, also noted, it began with fevered heads & inflamed eyes, unquenchable thirst with severe diarrhea, people crawling into water systems to drink and die, 1/3 of the Athenians, died. It took their president, Pericles, 6 months to die. And led to the surrender of Athens to the Spartans, in 404 B.C. and the loss of their Navy, their empire, their wealth, the trial & death of Sokrates because he was critical & somehow responsible for this major defeat, and the loss of their Democracy & Constitution. End of an era, but not the critical reasoning skills & literature spread through Hellenism. Ideas that created new forms of the inquiry of nature, of medicine, of so many things! But democracy ends as a new age of kings & emperors developed. . . .
Their epidemic changed the course of history, but their ideas spread to the British House of Commons, to the United States House of "Representatives", and to the fields of historical inquiry & biological studies. Thank you for including history; whatever microbe probably bacterial, that caused "The Athenian Plague" one of the best recorded in antiquity but one that also blamed and put to death, their greatest philosopher, Sokrates, is a lesson for us all.
Thank you. I am a medical professional working in clinical research. I am enjoying your work.
Thanks for re-recording Lecture 1, I hope you have better luck in 2023.
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Fascinating...learning learning learning....
I am starting lecture one today to get a preview and head start before the next semester.
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Hello , great lectures , which textbook do you use?
I miss when science didn't test on animals. I believe we should always go to human testing.