On The Influence Of Ancient Greek Astronomy On Ancient Greek History

In ancient China, Astronomy had intimate relation with humanity spirit. It is a question that whether west’s astronomy had to face the same situation. This essay’s core topic is discussing the influence of the ancient Greek astronomy and history conception. At the primary development period of astronomy it had an indissoluble bound with humanity spirit. The views of ancient Greek’s celestial body reflected the idea of gods and human beings had same sharps and characters, sky and earth have similar characters, planet ranks first, people should obey destiny. The ancient Greek celestial view promoted the establishment of ancient Greek history, and it had a strong influence on ancient Greek historians’ destiny view and cycle view of history. Greek constellation and mythology system affected the historians’ humanistic thoughts and morality. The system was full of reverse noble and humble ideas; it also influenced humanity and moral ideas. The characteristics of the ancient Greek calendar system resulted in ancient Greek historians lacked of time concept. In early ancient Greek, philosophers’ views and achievements provided historians with rational, aesthetic, doubt and determinism spirit. The ancient Greek astronomy belonged to incomplete Funicular calendar, the complex and chaos of the ancient Greek astronomy resulted in the lack of the concept of time.