Socrates goes on giving a veritable lesson on love to Hippothales, putting forth philia as a superior kind of love (and friendship), because one is concerned with the happiness of the other person, and wish to educate him in order to help him (remember that Hippothales is older than Lysis...
There a great rock rises up and extends into the deep sea. Once numerous pines gave this rock to be named for them in the Greek language. And the shore slopes back right as far as the shrine of Venus [i.e. Aphrodite] and the ridge of Venus. In fact...
I have been playing through at a rather slow pace. A month in and I am only at the 5th gym battle. But I have also been playing through in a very systematic way, trying to check every side path and talk to every person I meet along the way. Since the end game doesn’t do much...
SHORT BREAKS: 48 HOURS IN ATHENS ; the Greek Capital Mixes Ancient History with Bustling Street Life. It Was the Home of the First Modern Olympic Games, and Is Now Being Spruced Up to Host the Contest in Two Years' Time. TOM HINDLE Says on Your Marks, Get Set, GO!
In so doing, the Hippocratic book Epidemics introduces at least two new meanings to the Greek word epidemos. On one side, the term suggests the application of a political category conceiving of a public problem—that is to say, it concerns the people’s disease, translated to Latin as De ...