democracy. Even if we all feel not literate enough, there is simply nobody else available. We have to do it and the result can only be as good as we are smart. That's life. Still I prefer it to a tyranny where someone tells you what to do and what to think. It's certainly ...
NAS: Someone in the crowd saidKJV: And one of the companyINT: said moreover one from the Luke 12:15 IPro-DMSGRK: τῷ περισσεύειν τινὶ ἡ ζωὴNAS: for not [even] when one has an abundanceKJV: for a man's lifeINT: the abundance to anyone the life...
Let’s not wait for someone else to pull the snake out from its hole so that we can live in peace. They’re silent out of indifference. What’s bad is that even people who’ve got something inside have begun to grow cool, saying: “Can I really do anything to ...
When he dies, Gilgamesh is horrified and determines on a quest for immorality. He fails. This is still a poignant story, since human beings still face loss and grief and death, just as did Gilgamesh. Indeed, Enkidu's vision of death is still chilling: There is the house whose people ...
"[Apollon] obtained from the Moirai (Fates) a privilege for [King] Admetos , whereby, when it was time for him to die, he would be released from death if someone should volunteer to die in his place. When his day to die came . . . [his wife] Alkestis (Alcestis) died for him....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek opposition party Tuesday submitted a motion of no-confidence against the government, saying that it tried to cover up its responsibility over a deadly rail disaster last year that shocked Greece. The Socialist Pasok party challenged the government following a ...
"The fine deed [i.e. a victory in the Games], if it wins authentic songs of praise, is stored on high among the gods; and with the help of men's truthfulness a most fine plaything [the poem] of the slim-waisted Mousai (Muses) is left behind even when one dies." ...
It was not a single event that precipitated Kasselakis’ ouster but, a buildup of discontent over the past year, which caused many who had viewed him as a charismatic savior to view him as someone bent on turning the party into a personal vehicle. Kasselakis reacted to the res...
Again, when someone asked him to write a laudatory poem for which he offered profuse thanks, but no money, Simonides replied that he kept two coffers, one for thanks, the other for money; that, when he opened them, he found the former empty and useless, and the latter full. ...
"Someone created men to be a race like unto the blessed gods, albeit he gave them inferior strength: whether it was the son of Iapetos (Iapetus), Prometheus of the many devices, who made man in the likeness of the blessed ones, mingling earth with water, and anointed his heart with the...