COUNTING THE STARS – ASTRONOMY IN ANCIENT GREECE (TRAILER)

Εxplore the mythical worlds of Astronomy, the mother of all modern sciences through the magic of Greek mythology and ancient knowledge


1.Myths and poetry: Man's struggle to interpret his origins is as old as man himself. How did the ancient Greeks try to explain the creation of the universe and what does this reveal about their culture?

1.2 Philosophy and astronomy

With the birth of philosophy and science, the mysteries of the universe begin to be stripped of the veil of the inexplicable. Ionian, Pythagorean and Socratic philosophers give the first logical explanations of cosmogony

1.3 Astronomical metric instruments

The astronomical and meteorological instruments of the ancient Greeks, as well as the complex thinking that enabled their construction, laid the foundations for the scientific research that followed. A presentation of the greatest of them.

  • Director Lina Damaskopoulou

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