It is natural affection, like that felt by parents for offspring. Rarely used in ancient works, and then almost exclusively as a descriptor of relationships within the family. It is also known to express mere acceptance or putting up with situations, as in "loving" the tyrant. Storge在古代...
Thus I helped [Zeus] the tyrant of the gods . . . As soon as he had seated himself upon his father's throne, he immediately assigned to the deities their several privileges and apportioned to them their proper powers."Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 955 ff : "Have I [the Titan Prometheus]...
z Conquered their neighbors, the Laconians & the Messenians z These people became known as helots (Greek word for “capture”) Became a military state to ensure control over the helots Boys learn military discipline Spartan = “highly self-disciplined” y men served a lifetime in the military...
He did entertain a hope, however, that if a tyrant could be "converted" to philosophy, then his ideas would be implemented. One of his efforts to do so involved the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse (367-357 & 346-344). During one trip there, however, in 361, Plato so infuriated ...
Still, that didn’t stop the Corinth tyrant Periander in the 7th century BC. He did try to dig for a canal but found the task far more demanding and expensive than he’d thought. So, he constructed a ‘diolkos’ instead, i.e. a passageway from one shore to the other that involved ...
Cronus, the youngest of the first-generation Titans, was both a symbol of harvest and the destructive nature of time. Known for overthrowing his tyrant father Uranus with a sickle, he initiated the tranquil Golden Age but became infamous for swallowing h
: The tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse wrote a play entitled Leda for the Dionysia of Athens. It was probably not unique. The comedians also dealt with the story of Leda and the birth of Helene. An Apulian vase painting of the era (H29.1 below) depicts Helene hatching from the egg ...
Center of Greek Life Polis – Greek city-state and the center of Greek life Our word politics comes from polis Town where people met for political, religious, and social gatherings Community of people with common identity and common goals Acropolis – fortified area at the top of a hill used...
for this is covered with such representations."Plato, Hipparchus 228b (trans. Lamb) : "Sokrates : Hipparkhos [an Athenian tyrant late C6th B.C.] . . . among the many goodly proofs of wisdom that he showed, first . . . compelled the rhapsodies at the Panathenaia to recite them in ...
, while she was vexed in her dear heart : ‘My children, gotten of a sinful father, if you will obey me, we should punish the vile outrage of your father; for he first thought of doing shameful things.’ So she said; but fear seized them all, and none of them uttered a word. ...