…word chaos never appears in homer it is known where it occurs for the first time and it occurs for the first time in Hesiod. He was kind of contemporary, more or less of homer, if a person at all, around 800 BC, the beginning of the bardic tradition…

…more or less of homer, if a person at all, around 800 BC, the beginning of the bardic tradition of ancient Greece. And in Hesiod this word chaos appears in a piece called theogony, which is a theogony that is to say more or less a creation tale but…

…apparently superficially, to do with what we mean by chaos in the English Language and in ordinary life. It meant only to Hesiod, according to the lexicon, the gaping void left the gaping void sort of the gaping void between heaven and earth out of…

…beginning with a capital letter they don't mean people or anything like people they're more abstract principles, particularly in homer and Hesiod and in the orphic literature, the orphic hymns. So these chaos Gaia, Eros are I mean it's a trinity and it's…

…an androgyne, you know a double sexed person or concept. Whereas chaos is definitely a feminine word as it appears in Hesiod, Gaia is feminine, chaos is feminine and eros has got this ambivalence. And they're the most abstract, earliest proto concepts of…

…consciously manipulated variables. So modelers look at human history. They have for a long, long time. Herodotus had a theory of history. Hesiod had a theory of history. Marx, Vico, so forth. I think what moves me to talk about this, this evening is the…