In ancient Greek, the term euthanatos meant "easy death". Today euthanasia (安乐死) generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary (自愿) ending of the life of someone who is terminally ill. Like abortion, euthanasia has become a legal, medical, and moral issue over which opinion is divid...
aIn ancient Greek, the term euthanatos meant “easy death” Today euthanasia(安乐死) generally refers to mercy killing,the voluntary(自愿) ending of the life of someone who is terminally ill. Like abortion, euthanasia has become a legal, medical, and moral issue over which opinion is divided....
Elysian Fields,Elysium- (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death Charybdis- (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla classical mythology- the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology ...
In ancient Greek, the term euthanatos meant "easy death". Today euthanasia (安乐死) generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary (自愿) ending of the life of someone who is terminally ill. Like abortion, euthanasia has become a legal, medical, and moral issue over which opinion is pid...
The idea of mental health and illness is the central idea in the psychological approach that we typically refer to as the medical model. The term “medical model”, in its most basic sense, means that one approaches a given field of human endeavour in the manner associated with medicine: th...
[Alexander the Great] was often extremely brutal to his captives, whom he sold into slavery, tortured to death, or forced to learn Greek. — Will Cuppy In The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), 42, footnote. Science quotes on: | Alexander the Great (4) | Brutal (3) ...
as they have hollow steams that could allow thesouls of the dead to travel up from the soil into the growing beans.While the edict against beans was pfted not long after Pythagoras’death,his followerscontinued to eat a meatless diet.His principles influenced generations of academics and rep...
6“The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. 7The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts. 8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of...
Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 BCE, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy
Even by thecriterionof Sparta’s local interests, Cleomenes, or more fairly Sparta’s treatment of Cleomenes, had bad results. Cleomenes’ offer of some kind of new deal to the Arcadians (bettersubstantiatedthan his dealings with the helots) came to nothing with his spectacular death; he went...