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thos’ to ‘Logos’: The Case of Heraclitus By Dagnachew Desta∗In its origin and early formation, philosophy was clo. ely related with mythical disclosure of the world and the transcendent. During this early period of Greek history (. ixth century B.C.) poets and sages filled the shoes of the theologians. With the.
where it comes from, and where it fits in Greek history and landscape. Ken Dowden outlines the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which myth can be put in recovering the richness of their culture. This book begins by considering the nature of Greek myth and goes on to show the diversity of the ways the Greeks used myth.
goddesses of harmony and culture. Their leader and guide was Apollo whose name was interpreted later by the Pythagoreans such as Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-125 C.E.) as equated with the One (in Greek a = not, pollon = of many).2 Plutarch was himself a priest of Apollo in the temple at Delphi. But Apollo was a
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the Greek intelligence, which the Church naturally depreciates in order to emphasize the greater spiritual importance of the Bible. Yet it is difficult to overestimate their value in the study of early European history, religion, and sociology. ‘Chimerical’ is an adjectival form of the noun . chimaera, meaning ‘she-goat’. Four
Abstract. Because of history, culture, and politics, European identity has its archetypical elements in ancient Greek culture. Ancient Greek philosophy brought Logos to fore and defined it as the ...
This Greek mind-set hinged on independence. It was not opposed to hard work but to commerce and to producing for the market. Thus, there was no unifijied concept of ‘work’ that covered both ...
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For the weapons of our warfare [are] not of the flesh, but mighty through God to [the] pulling down of strongholds. In the Nicene Father series, the verse as it appears in John Chrysostom's Greek commentary is translated "mighty before God", which conveys more or less the same meaning, I think. The full translation:
