Professor Edith Hall

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.

And I think it may even be the same with eels because I don't know an awful lot about eels and reproduction. But I suspect he got a tank and watched them for many hours because we know, for example, he sat looking at a chicken's egg for 20 days or something to see what happened to it.

And I think it may even be the same with eels because I don't know an awful lot about eels and reproduction. But I suspect he got a tank and watched them for many hours because we know, for example, he sat looking at a chicken's egg for 20 days or something to see what happened to it.

He will have watched those eels and never actually seen them copulate or something. And therefore inferred. So I'm not, I think laughing at him is wrong because he was drawing sometimes false inferences from studious empirical observation.

He will have watched those eels and never actually seen them copulate or something. And therefore inferred. So I'm not, I think laughing at him is wrong because he was drawing sometimes false inferences from studious empirical observation.

And not everybody's prepared to watch a tank full of eels for several days.

And not everybody's prepared to watch a tank full of eels for several days.

Dedication.

Dedication.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, exactly.

You can tell that from his work on volcanoes. He builds up a relational database, which is no mean feat on ancient papyrus.

You can tell that from his work on volcanoes. He builds up a relational database, which is no mean feat on ancient papyrus.

When he gets the gig and decides to go, that's how it's always put in his biographies. We don't know any more about it. I would say when you get a letter from Philip, the greatest murderer the Greek world has ever known of Macedon, you don't sit around saying, I don't think I feel like that because you might be dead the next day.

When he gets the gig and decides to go, that's how it's always put in his biographies. We don't know any more about it. I would say when you get a letter from Philip, the greatest murderer the Greek world has ever known of Macedon, you don't sit around saying, I don't think I feel like that because you might be dead the next day.

Also, it did mean money, money, money, money, money. And I think Aristotle already always had his eye on the long game, which was to found a university to completely outclass the academy.

Also, it did mean money, money, money, money, money. And I think Aristotle already always had his eye on the long game, which was to found a university to completely outclass the academy.

Yeah, but if you're...

Yeah, but if you're...

Must have been incredibly difficult.