ABSTRACT
The anthropologist Edmund Leach turned to classical Greek language and mythology and used symbolic logic to explain time. He derives his insights on the meaning of Greek mythology from Greek philosophy, pointing out how in the classical period the idea of time had become an oscillation of vitality between two contrasted poles. In the Greek myth, Cronus separates Sky from Earth in which, unlike the Egyptian narrative of beginnings, Greek gender associations are reversed – Sky is male and Earth is female. Leach explores the myth of Cronus and its transformations over time, in philosophy, literature, and religion. Medieval Arab science made some contributions to the notion of time and space. In general, Arab and Muslim scholarship from the tenth to the fifteenth century was seminal to the development of science and technology, making significant contributions in the history of thought and science about the development of society and culture.
