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    Politeia : "(...) Polis and politeia is not the State, and, as Castoriadis has observed, if we translate the most democratic text of all ages, Pericles' funeral oration, saying State instead of Polis, as German philologues have done, the text sounds as a nazi text: where Pericles said that ‘we die for each other’ (this 'each other' is the Polis), the translation says: we die for the State (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

    European values : "(...) I am not sure whether the modern usage of the term "democracy" is, so to speak, "etymologically legitimate". I have the impression that what the term applies to today is not exactly the same as what it applied to in its original context. For example, in its original Athenian context the term implied that any member of the community of citizens could be a judge some day. The existence of such a likelihood affected the way people behaved to each other considerably. I think there are many differences of this qualitative kind (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

    Turkey's "Christian" Heritage : "(...) Accepting Turkey into Europe, in my opinion, is equal to accepting barbarity and devastation, and - most important -, is equal to making of barbarity a principle...  *-- even the background of taking a church and destroying the icons from the walls is shared between Turkey and e.g. the Netherlands, to stay in the same example: during the advent of Protestant Christianity many icons were destroyed from the walls, as the new creed rejected such representations...  *-- gay marriages seem something ‘normal’ and are ready to gain official support, while the (Catholic) Church is unable even to explain with real arguments and not legalistic nonsense, what is it that bothers us in gay marriages. Having made of the Church something like a Divine Police, Catholicism now (and since long ago), gathers the fruits of this ‘strategy’ – yet such failures regard the life of all of us. I think that we will be tried hard in the years to come (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

    Theories of pronouncing ancient Greek : "(...) What we can know about how they spoke is not limited only by possible differences such as those between an interpretation by Karajan and another one by Bruno Walter. This kind of differences is what exists between American and British English or between the English of Marlon Brando and the English of Mel Gibson, etc. In the case of Ancient Greek, one has first to compose and then to interpret - we should not expect a final, 'authentic', knowledge of how they actually spoke. But the very concept of searching for this, has a serious disadvantage, which has been also demonstrated in the relatively easier task of approaching the sounding of Baroque music. It is what we could call "museum knowledge" (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

    The Joban Epic: Reconsidered : "(...) The element of air according to Isidore of Seville(b 560), the brother of Bishop Leander of Seville, was the essential and constant element that illuminated the conduct and deeds of the strong and wise man throughout the trails of his particular and, very often hazardous journey against the course of fate. Isidore identifies both the Homeric epics and the Book of Job as heroic poems ("heroicum carmen") that represent the hero as a strong and wise man ("propter sapientiam et fortitudinem") who overcomes his temporal nature, and the walls of fate for a greater coming-to-perfection, in which the hero substantiates and eclipses the human possibility of all mankind by his adherence to a divinity reached only by endurance, remembrance, strength and wisdom (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

    Peter Damascene : "(...) To believe in grace and not in works, doesn't mean what Heidegger said, that "we have nothing to do, there is nothing that must be done" (...)" - Read more / Participate in this discussion

The Greek Word Library

ATHANASIUS THE GREAT, To cure and teach the suffering

"... if even Plato, who is in such repute among the Greeks, says that its author, beholding the universe tempest-tossed, and in peril of going down to the place of chaos, takes his seat at the helm of the soul and comes to the rescue and corrects all its calamities; what is there incredible in what we say, that, mankind being in error, the Word lighted down upon it and appeared as man, that He might save it in its tempest by His guidance and goodness?" - Read complete

Links

    Gregory the Theologian on Athanasius * Uncreated and Created, Unbegotten and Begotten in the Theology of Athanasius of Alexandria, by P. Christou * Works of Athanasius (in English). * Athanasius in Butler's Lives of the Saints * Robertson's introduction.

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Canyon, Ophelia Poems by Arcadian at the Writing Community.

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    Ginosko Greek, reviews 350 New Testament words by running through decks of cards just as if you were reviewing a stack of flashcards. It is designed to run though the chosen deck until all words are correctly identified.

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