Livio C. Stecchini

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Livio Catullo Stecchini (6 October 1913 – September 1979) was an Italian professor of ancient history at

Great Pyramids
.

Career

Originally a classicist, he became a student of

Syro-Roman Law Book
.

After the Freiburg group was disbanded by Hitler[

University of Rome and a member of the Institute of Roman and Oriental Law of that University where he was influenced by Edoardo Volterra
holder of the chair of Oriental Law there.

He fled the Fascist regimes of Europe to the United States[

Harvard under Werner Jaeger. Jaeger suggested that he write his thesis on the concept of akribea or precision in Greek thought. His Ph.D. dissertation from 1946 was entitled "On the Origin of Money in Greece".[1] From there, he went to the study of Greek monetary weights, the operation of Greek mints and the dimensions of Greek temples. From there he turned to the study of ancient geography and geodesy. His knowledge was specialized in agrarian measures in cuneiform tablets, rates of money exchange in Greek tablets, and the volume of jars in Egyptian papyri, cited in major periodicals such as Classical Philology. He also wrote more general works, some subsequently republished, such as his analysis of Herodotus in "The Persian Wars"[2]

Controversy

Stecchini's work included many controversial elements, and he complained he was ignored by fellow scholars. His defence of Immanuel Velikovsky in the September 1963 issue of American Behavioral Scientist (republished in 1966 as The Velikovsky Affair) undoubtedly also contributed to this.

Most scholars[who?] consider his unpublished work on metrology, based on his work on ancient numismatics, as numerology or pseudoscientific metrology.[citation needed] His method consists of starting with an assumption, namely that all ancient measures are by definition related. It is an old and intriguing idea, but one for which no proof has been found. Based on numerical analysis of data, he reaches his conclusion (in "A History of Measures"):

I have solved the inner rationale of ancient and medieval units of length, and by implication, of all units of measure, by discovering two facts:

a) that there were four fundamental types of foot related as 15:16:17:18,
b) that each of these types existed in two varieties related as the cube root of 24/the cube root of 25.


Stecchini's analysis of the geometry and methods for constructing the Great Pyramid were interpreted for a popular audience in Peter Tompkins' Secrets of the Great Pyramid with Stecchini's "Notes of the Relation of Ancient Measures to the Great Pyramid," in an appendix to the book.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Stecchini, Livio Catullo (1946). "Origin of money in Greece". PhD thesis. HOLLIS Classic Harvard University.
  2. ^ Livio C. Stecchini (n.d.). "The Persian Wars". Iran Chamber Society. Archived from the original on 24 November 2010. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  3. ISBN 0-88365-957-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )

External links

  • [1] preserves some scattered material, his essay "The Deluge as Metaphor," an essay on the origin of money in Greece, on the relation between Greece and Anatolia in "Gyges and Homer", "A History of Measures", and in "The Key to Ancient Architecture," Stecchini's analytic measurements of the Parthenon, etc.
  • THE INCONSTANT HEAVENS. Accessed 2 March 2024.
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