Welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know podcast episode nine.

Good for us.

Yeah, it's a lot.

And I'll try to keep this a little quick because we have to turn off the air conditioner

so that you can actually hear us and it gets really hot in this room really fast.

We get worked up.

Yeah.

I put off a lot of heat when I'm podcasting.

So today I wanted to talk a little bit about cosmology, the way that we believe the universe is made.

For us, this is, the universe seems large and cold and dwarfing, right?

We are maybe the mid-level between the

tininess of atoms and the grandeur of the universe and how large it really is. For us, when we

stare out into the night sky, what we see is an incredibly dwarfing, harsh, cold thing. Cold, dark

silence. Cold, dark silence.

That is what moderns believe about the universe.

But that's not what we have believed about the universe forever.

And if we want to understand the way that some of the ancient texts are written, the

Iliad, Gilgamesh, etc., we should understand something about the cosmology in which they existed,

how they viewed their world. So you think that the way we understand the universe will affect

the way we understand our life and ourselves and our placing? Well, it's not just that. I mean,

yes, obviously. But it will also affect the references in literature, things you may not even

understand just because you don't know how they

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