The Greek term for a city-state—an area dominated by and administered from a central fortifiable town. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited Translations Spanish / Español ...
Hierokles : I care little for that. 'Tis not the Sibyl who spoke it. Trygaios : Wise Homer has also said: ‘He who delights in the horrors of civil war has neither country nor laws nor home.’ What noble words! . . . Trygaios (to the Servant Who has returned with the libati...
Father’s “house” or “business” (Luke 2:49) Monday, December 9, 2024 Omitted words. We all do it. I am from Minnesota, and we love to end sentences in repositions. “Do you want to go with?” From context, you know to supply the final “me.” It happens especially in par...
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Information is given on points of style and usage, and appendices are included listing the principal parts of Greek verbs, place names, and personal names. Brought completely up-to-date with the monotonic spelling syste...
We see it written that way, even in the names of Court women -- but not, as it happens, for men, like the King. Changed in Philosophy: Greek philosophy represented a burst of creativity. While Thales' views about water reflected long held mythic accounts (both Egyptian, Babylonian, and ...
"Aristaeus wept, when he saw all his bees killed and honeycombs abandoned incomplete. His sea-blue mother [the Naiad Kyrene (Cyrene)] could scarcely console his pain, and attached these final words to her speech : ‘Stop your tears, my boy. [The sea-god] Proteus will lighten your loss,...
The impact of Greek mythology on western culture and language isn't confined to individual words. Many expressions, proverbs and clichés are direct references to ancient Greek myths. For example, the expressions "caught between a rock and a hard place" and "between the Devil and the deep blue...
In Engels’ words, “the manifold forms of Greek philosophy contain in embryo, in the nascent state, almost all the later modes of outlook on the world” (Dialektika prirody, 1969, p. 29). Ancient Greek philosophy was the initial base for the entire subsequent development of West European...
Space forbids us saying more than a few words on the domestic history of the Greek Church. The election of the patriarch belonged by right to the Holy Synod; de facto, as we have seen, it was the Basileus or emperor, who elected him. Limited as was the authority of the Holy Synod, ...