John Harper wrote:
> A neat disproof can be found by looking up Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 1.
But Saint Augustine (354-430) flattened the earth again:
"Flat earth arguments usually evolve from literal, naive readings of the
Bible. There's a great Christian precedent for these. Though men of
the fourth century BC understood that the earth was round, Augustine,
seven centuries later, thought otherwise. There couldn't possibly be
people on the bottom side of the earth, because they wouldn't be
able to see Christ come down from Heaven on Judgement Day.."
("The New Apocrypha", by John Sladek; Granada Pub. 1978)
BTW someone told me that Herodotus belonged to the Pythagorean
school. Is that right?
am