located in modern-day Turkey. The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a magnificent structure dedicated to her worship. This temple not only served as a place of worship, but also as a sanctuary for those seeking refuge, showcasing another aspec...
but also for international appeal. Also found it interesting how many non-Greek fans you had both as listeners and contributors. I once sent a program to my neighbor, who was very fond of Greek cuisine and he became a very big fan over time. He's quite a well known lawyer...
My strength is in the love of the people. This has always been the motto and guiding light of our family. For us, and for all Greeks, the strength of the country lies in the love of the Greek people for their homeland. We, as you dear Papa, always love Hellas and its people. Saf...
It wasn’t the most extravagant compliment, kind of backhanded in the way he suggested she was seeking his forgiveness, but she warmed under his words. And couldn’t help taking a visual snapshot of him in his black pants and black button shirt under a smoky gray suede jacket that was s...
Not a word that I’ve ever used, but you might like it. It means “servile, self-seeking flatterer.” In ancient Greek, it meant “one who shows the fig.” That referred to an insulting hand gesture that respectable Greek politicians wouldn’t use against their opponents, but whose shame...
The Greek wordhistoria originally meant inquiry, the act of seeking knowledge, as well as the knowledge that results from inquiry. ... And from there it's a short jump to the accounts of events that a person might put together from making inquiries — what we might call stories. ...
1375/diōgmós("religiouspersecution") literally refers to those seeking topunish God's messengers with a vengeance– like ahuntertrying to conquer (obliterate) someone as their "catch." [1375(diōgmós) is used in ancient and biblical Greek forpersecution(hostility) shown by confused, spiritual ...
NAS:like a roaringlion,seeking someone KJV:a roaringlion,walketh about, INT:[the] devil asa lionroaring goes about Revelation 4:7N-DMS GRK:πρῶτον ὅμοιονλέοντικαὶ τὸ NAS:[was] likea lion,and the second ...
The Greek word for sheep comes from the verb προβαινω (probaino), to step ahead, to make progress. That makes Ode To Sheep an Ode To Progress, and Ode To Goat and Ode To Adversity. And it also means that Judaism is rather the principled rejection of fear and any progress ...
The Greek genocide, part of which is known as the Pontic genocide, was the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Christian Ottoman Greek population from its historic homeland in Asia Minor, central Anatolia, Pontus, and the former Russian Caucasus province