Socrates' Ancestor is a rich and poetic exploration of architectural beginnings andthe dawn of Western philosophy in preclassical Greece. Architecture precedes philosophy, McEwenargues, and it was here, in the archaic Greek polis, that Western architecture became the cradle ofWestern thought. McEwen's appreciation of the early Greek understanding of the indissolubility ofcraft and community yields new insight into such issues as orthogonal planning and the appearance ofthe encompassing colonnade - the ptera or "wings" - that made Greek temples Greek.Who was Socrates'ancestor? Socrates claims it was Daedalus, the mythical first architect. Socrates' ancestors werealso the first Western philosophers: the preSocratic thinkers of archaic Greece where the Greekcity-state with its monumental temples first came to light. McEwen brilliantly draws out theconnections between Daedalus and the earliest Greek thinkers, between architecture and the advent ofspeculative thought. She argues that Greek thought and Greek architecture share a common ground inthe amazing fabrications of the legendary Daedalus: statues so animated with divine life that theyhad to be bound in chains, the Labyrinth where Theseus slew the Minotaur, Ariadne's dancing floor inKnossos.Socrates' Ancestor is an exploration as remarkable for its clarity as for its avoidance ofreductionism. Drawing as much on the power of myth and metaphor as on philosophical, philological,and historical considerations, McEwen first reaches backward: from Socrates to the earliest writtenrecord of Western philosophy in the Anaximander B1 fragment, and its physical expression inAnaximander's built work - a "cosmic model" that consisted of a celestial sphere, a map of theworld, and the first Greek sun clock. From daedalean artifacts she draws out the centrality of earlyGreek craftsmanship and its role in the making of the Greek city-state. The investigation then movesJames forward to a discussion of the polis and the first great peripteral temples that anchored forthe meaning of "city."Indra Kagis McEwen teaches architecture at the National Theatre School ofCanada and at I'Universite duQuebec a Montreal.
Indra Kagis McEwen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and lecturer at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal.
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