If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed. — Michio Kaku In Brian Bolduc, 'Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow', The Wall Street Journal (9 March 2012) ...
sisters' inspiration, unto the end of time. Let not thy soul be crushed by dark grief, nor do thou lament like those frail mortal women. Know'st thou not that round all men which dwell upon the earth hovereth irresistible deadly Aisa (Aesa, Fate), who recks not even of the Gods?
Temples were built for each god. Priests in the temples were in charge of speaking to their particular god or goddess, and making sense of what they wanted the Greek people to do. To please the gods even more, festivals were held in their honour. The Olympics began as a sporting festival...
: "For me the gods have allotted no such happiness; I have no choice but to bear what comes."Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 2 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "The Moirai (Moirae, Fates) made you [Herakles] the most toilful and the most excellent."...
it is a visit from the heavens and is what the gods use to determine if the hero has atone for his sins what is hamartia? it is an error of judgement that results in the downfall of the hero as his weakness what is catharsis?
In Greek mythology,the gods live in a society in which the work is devided developingly,it means the society is advanced society.However,some gods(including heroes) are still full of beastliness.The advanced civilization and the high instinct of the gods exist large contrast.It is the phenomen...
7. Something non-Greek and IPA-like is used for ξ and δ (/ks/ and /ð/), so why is the Greek letter χ used to represent the χ in “συντυχαίνει” and elsewhere? Consistency would require /x/. Presumably the letterxcould have no place in the scheme used for ...
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ψ (lowercase psi): You have entered the domain of King Triton, ruler of the waves.— Both capital and lowercase psi are shaped like tridents. In classical mythology,Tritonis one of the gods of the sea, alongside his father Poseidon, and tridents are commonly associated with sea gods. In...
Update: While for the longest time I have intended on completing this survey, I have finally recognized that it isn’t going to happen. This has been made particularly clear with the release of the NIV2011 which now replaces both the NIV and the TNIV. ...