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Ever since the ancient Greeks speculated a continent must exist in the south polar regions to balance those in thenorth, Antarctica has been popularly described as remote and extreme. Over the past two centuries, these factors have combined to create, in the human psyche, an almost mythical lan...
Odysseus became tired of the war and the delay in Troy. He 【4】 (urgent) wanted to return home, so when the Greek kings had their regular【5】 (week) meeting, he suggested that they take an opportunity【6】 (trick) the Trojans.The Greeks built a giant wooden horse so that men ...
When the administrative boundaries between the republics of the USSR turned into real borders in 1991, eight million ethnic Russians became ‘Ukrainians’ on paper. Kharkov in Ukraine and Belgorod in Russia, for example, are essentially twin cities that were founded by Russian tsars as frontier fo...
They'd been replaced in Northern Africa and Asia Minor by the patriarchal Egyptians, Hittites, Phoenicians, Persians, Sumerians, and Babylonians. They'd been pushed out of Europe by the Greeks, the Romans, the Goths, and the Gauls. They'd surrendered Asia to the Chosun, the Yamato, the...
‘Pandora’ is the root cause of misfortune of human beings. The Greeks considered women to be subhuman and inferior to men. Though chastity of women was precious, and women were held in high esteem, the Greeks were later overwhelmed by ego and sexual perversions. Prostitution became a ...
Birds have always been signs and portents; the ancient Greeks had the same word, ὄρνις, for bird and omen. Hence Aristophanes: ‘A word can be a bird for you.’ In prophecy or poetry, all language leaps to flight; it becomes avian. ‘Turn your minds to our words, our ether...
Yet the concept dates back to the Greeks,“constituted in Greek as epimelesthai sautou,‘to take care of yourself’ ‘the concern with self,’‘to be concerned, to take care of yourself.’” Foucault posited that there were four main “technologies:” “(I) technologies of production, ...
Septicflesh generated a swarm of buzz around ‘The Great Mass,’ destroying pre-conceived notions about symphonic death metal. The Greeks’ melding of pounding rhythms alongside bombastic orchestral arrangements (composed by guitarist Christos Antoniou) bring an inspiring dynamism to the anthemic “Pyram...
Followers of Shinto, unlike Judeo-Christian monotheists and the Greeks before them, do not believe that humans are particularly “special.” Instead, there are spirits in everything, rather like the Force in Star Wars. Nature doesn’t belong to us, we belong to Nature, and spirits live in...