As you know from the last couple of episodes, our technocentric journey has now taken us to the Iron Age. In the previous episode we looked at what makes it the iron age, in literal, material, or artefactual terms. Let’s now explore other aspects of it - for we are now at the beginning of the Classical era!

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Further Reading & Reference

* Ober, Josiah. (2022). Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason. University of California Press. ISBN ‎ 978-0520380165.

* Ober, Josiah. (2015). The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1400865550.

* Anderson, Greg. (2018). The Realness of Things Past: Ancient Greece and Ontological History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190886660.

* Popper, Karl. (2008, original 1932). The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge. Routledge Classics. ISBN 978-0415610223.

* Deutsch, David. (2012). The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143121350.

* Russell, Bertrand. (1967, original 1945) The History of Western Philosophy. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671201586. (And possibly every book of Russell you can get hold of!)