Overview of the Plague of Athens Plagues and pandemics have been around for thousands of years. In fact, Athens had a particularly notable one that started in 430 BC, around the time when Athens was... Read More Plato Likely Had the First Alarm Clock Most of us use an alarm clock withou...
(Ceos) and told him likewise of the honours which would be his among the Keans. To this island he sailed, but since a plague prevailed throughout Greece the sacrifice he offered there was on behalf of all the Greeks. And since the sacrifice was made at the time of the rising of the ...
Not long afterwards, Zeus began to experience an intense headache which continued to plague him until he snapped and orderedHephaestusto cleave his head open with an axe to relieve the pain. Athena sprang out from Zeus’ head, dressed in armor and ready to fight. Although it had been foretol...
Haides and Persephone inflicted Thebes with a deadly plague, probably as punishment for King Kreon's (Creon's) refusal to allow the burial of the dead warriors of the army of the Seven Against Thebes. When the maiden Koronides (Coronides) sacrificed themselves to appease the gods, they ...
INT: the word from the heart Luke 8:18 PrepGRK: ἔχειν ἀρθήσεται ἀπ'αὐτοῦ KJV: hath not, from him shall be takenINT: to have will be taken from him Luke 8:29 PrepGRK: ἀκαθάρτῳ ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸτοῦ ἀνθρ...
tropically,εἰςπτῶσινπολλῶν(opposed toεἰςἀνάστασιν), that many may fall and bring upon themselves ruin, i. e. the loss of salvation, utter misery,Luke 2:34, cf.Romans 11:11. (TheSept.chiefly forמַגֵּפָה, plague, defeat...
This is considered a "tragic death," although in modern languages the word tragedy is often used more loosely as a synonym for disaster —particularly a seemingly undeserved disaster that strikes unexpectedly powerful people and happy families. ...
Historiography - Ancient, Greek, Roman: In the beginning was the spoken word. Humans lived for tens of thousands of years with language, and thus with tales about the past, but without writing. Oral history is still important in all parts of the world, a
If a city had suffered a disaster, such as a famine or a plague, like the body, it needed to be purged or cleansed withblood or fire. The way to purify the polis was a ritual known as the “pharmakos.” Purifying the City
The dying man called down a curse upon his house which would plague Pelops and his descendants for many generations to come.Pelops quickly grew his empire and came to control most of the western Peloponnesos. His rival in the east was King Perseus of Argos, but the two houses formed an ...