Leshem, Dotan. “Retrospectives: What Did the Ancient Greeks Mean by ‘Oikonomia?’”The Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 30, no. 1, American Economic Association, 2016, pp. 225–38. Abstract: Nearly every economist has at some point in the standard coursework been exposed to a brief ...
Well, today I want to start talking about western music and I am going to start in ancient Greece.But, now here's the part that's different.We're not going to talk very much about the actual music.Instead, we are going to talk about what the Greeks believed about music. ...
The question of what the ancient Greeks can tell us about democracy can be answered by reference to three fields that have traditionally been pursued with little reference to one another: ancient history classical political theory, and political science. These fields have been coming into more ...
Every Ancient Greece philosopher has built a quite complicated theory，each one of which contains much knowledge of the world. Here, I would like to take a most famous figures as sample. His name is Thales, the first recorded philosopher in history.Thales was born in the city-sta...
Ancient Greeks enjoy a dessert similar to ice cream. And this is where our story begins! 1300s Ice cream, ho! Marco Polo brings an early form of ice cream to Europe. We imagine the popular pool game started with ice cream-craving fans searching in the night for Marco! (Polo!) 1700s...
2. How did ancient Greeks contribute to mead making and its popularity? The ancient Greeks played a significant role in the history of mead. They revered it as a gift from the gods, often associating it with divine inspiration and wisdom. While grape wine eventually became more popular in Gr...
2.Where did actors put on shows in the Middle Ages in Europe? 3.Why were theatres built outside the city walls in Elizabethan times? 4.How many people did a theatre group have in Elizabethan times? 5.What_ is the passage mainly about? 1.The ancient Greeks. 2.In the towns and in ...
The idea of virtue and its role in ethical behavior comes from Greek philosophy. Plato, who lived in the fourth century B.C., identified four virtues that have become influential concepts in Western civilization. Now known as the four cardinal virtues, t
1, 2011 35 The classical Greeks would have liked Christos's maps – in philosophy (Plato, The Republic, Book VI) and in weaving. But what are maps? How do you get one? What do they cost? Does a map show where to go? Philosophers may know the way – they aren't "blind" like ...
even the ancient greeks used to think that everything was made up of atoms. are these the final ‘substantives' with all of the apparent things in the world being merely attributes? well, unfortunately not. science has known for a long time that atoms mainly consist of empty space with ...