Professor Edith Hall

I don't think so. The fact is he got a very good friend, either already had or more likely made. But there was this young guy, he was 17 years younger than him, so about 20, called Theo Fraster, who means speaks like a god. And he is a lesbian. He lives on Lesbos. Stop it. Right. I'm just mirroring what you're saying. He's obsessed with plants.

And I think they quite literally decided over whatever the ancient ouzo was to invent zoology and botany together. And I think he's probably living off theophrastus' hospitality. But what I really admire is for all he knew, he was going to be stuck on that island as a poor relation, as it were, forever. Right. And he says, OK, if I'm going to be stuck on this island, what's this island got?

And I think they quite literally decided over whatever the ancient ouzo was to invent zoology and botany together. And I think he's probably living off theophrastus' hospitality. But what I really admire is for all he knew, he was going to be stuck on that island as a poor relation, as it were, forever. Right. And he says, OK, if I'm going to be stuck on this island, what's this island got?

I will devote my life to inventing Zoology. Do you see what I mean?

I will devote my life to inventing Zoology. Do you see what I mean?

No, if life gives you lemon.

No, if life gives you lemon.

back then there was so much nothing had been described when you invent something but he also invents environmental thinking one of the things he sees or doesn't see in the lagoon he says there used to be a thing called a red scallop the fishermen have told me he talked to all the people who really knew the fishermen have told me but overfishing has killed it. It is extinct. Yeah, oh wow.

back then there was so much nothing had been described when you invent something but he also invents environmental thinking one of the things he sees or doesn't see in the lagoon he says there used to be a thing called a red scallop the fishermen have told me he talked to all the people who really knew the fishermen have told me but overfishing has killed it. It is extinct. Yeah, oh wow.

He actually says that. That's the first reference in world literature to human industrial farming or anything actually killing off a species.

He actually says that. That's the first reference in world literature to human industrial farming or anything actually killing off a species.

So he's now actually quite big in green circles.

So he's now actually quite big in green circles.

Two men, a baby, and a hundred octopuses. Yeah.

Two men, a baby, and a hundred octopuses. Yeah.

I suspect he got a letter from one of Alexander's lieutenants who had indeed seen elephant bending in India. So he believes that women have fewer teeth than men. But the point about that one is that it's a result of doing some empirical studies and drawing false inference from them. So I know because I've given birth to two children and breastfed two children and I have lost two teeth.

I suspect he got a letter from one of Alexander's lieutenants who had indeed seen elephant bending in India. So he believes that women have fewer teeth than men. But the point about that one is that it's a result of doing some empirical studies and drawing false inference from them. So I know because I've given birth to two children and breastfed two children and I have lost two teeth.

So if you look into the mouth of a woman, you know, who had four children, which most women will have done in ancient Greece, they will have all lost one tooth for each child, because you do. And he'll have counted fewer if he did a test case of 30 women, and they all had four fewer teeth than men. That is actually a perfectly valid inference from an empirical survey.

So if you look into the mouth of a woman, you know, who had four children, which most women will have done in ancient Greece, they will have all lost one tooth for each child, because you do. And he'll have counted fewer if he did a test case of 30 women, and they all had four fewer teeth than men. That is actually a perfectly valid inference from an empirical survey.

Well, you didn't have women at dinner parties. Yeah. The symposium. The symposium. But he would have looked in any woman who was prepared to open her mouth. Yeah. And show him.