Africa Education: What Greeks said about Ancient Africa - Part 3

legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems which are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

Homer

ISOCRATES, the Greek rhetorician, said of Pythagoras, “On a visit to Egypt, he (Pythagoras) became a student of the religion of the people, and was the first to bring to the Greeks all philosophy…”

Isocrates

SENECA, said that Eudoxus, the Greek astronomer & mathematician had to go to Egypt to study planetary motion; at that time Egypt must have been the world’s leading centre of astronomy.

Seneca

These accounts complete this part of our discussion. Tomorrow, we start looking at the African contributions to modern civilisation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), starting with the science of the Dogon, Mali.