Richardson NJ. Early Greek views about life after death. In: Easterling PE, Muir JV, eds. Greek Religion and Society. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ Pr; 1985:50-66.Richardson, N. J. "Early Greek Views About Life After Death." In Greek Religion and Society, edited by P. E. Easterling...
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESBIRTH OF HADESHades and Persephone in the Underworld, Apulian red-figure krater C4th B.C., Staatliche Antikensammlungen Hesiod, Theogony 453 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "But Rhea was subject in love to Kronos (Cronus) and bare...
In ancient Greek,the term eu thanatos meant “easy death”.Today’s euthanasia generally refers to “mercy killing”,the voluntary ending of the life of someone who is terminally or hopelessly ill.Like abortion,euthanasia has become a legal,medical,and ethical issue over which opinion is divided...
. . No one else has ever contrived this, once Thanatos' (Death's) dark cloud has enveloped him and he has come to the shadowy place of the dead."Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) : Weir Smyth (L.C.L.) quotes from Pherecydes, a C5th B....
Greek Philosopher Quotes About Ancient Wisdom 131. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”― Aristotle 132. “It is not what you do, but how you do it, that counts.”― Socrates ...
[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) ...
After Plato’s death, Aristotle tutored the young Alexander the Great and founded the Lyceum school of philosophy outside Athens in 335 BCE. The Lyceum is the forerunner of modern educational and research institutions. Aristotle is one of the most prominent thinkers in the history of Western tho...
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESPARENTAGE OF NEMESISNemesis and Eutychia, Athenian red-figure hydria C5th B.C., Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe I. DAUGHTER OF NYXHesiod, Theogony 21 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : "And Nyx (Night) bare hateful Moros (Doom) and...
Among the three translators, Alexakis (T2) is the only one who renders dao as (capitalized) Logos, adding three quotes in the footnotes: from the Gospel of John28, the Rig Veda29, and Timothy Leary: Tao is best translated as ‘energy’, as energy in process. Energy in its pure, ...
His goal was enosis (union) with Greece, and in this he failed; indeed, he was a fugitive at the time of his death. Grivas organized EOKA (Ethnikí Orgánosis Kipriakoú Agónos, the “National Organization of Cypriot Struggle”) about 1955, after leading a right-wing resistance group ...