War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.
PindarTags: history war ancient-greeks
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.
Christopher HitchensTags: reading writing inspiration food christianity religion atheism miracles alcohol boredom wine new-testament brotherhood plato iran oxford ancient-greeks mullahs passover-seder cana entheos hellenism judaea marriage-at-cana omar-khayyam passover symposia
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
Roman PayneTags: moon scholarship balance quote novel ancient-greece greece lifestyle europe ancient-greeks roman-payne novel-quote full-moon beauties cycles the-wanderess
Όταν κάποιος δήλωσε στον Διογένη ότι δεν έχει κλήση στην φιλοσοφία, τότε ο Διογένης του απάντησε: "Τότε τι ζεις, αφού δεν ενδιαφέρεσαι πώς να ζήσεις καλά;". (Τί οὖν ζῇς, εἰ τοῦ καλῶς ζῆν μὴ μέλει σοι;)
Διογένης ο ΚυνικόςTags: philosophy ancient-greeks
Περὶ δὲ τοῦ ποδαπὸς ἐκβῇ οὐ θυετε;
(Βλέποντας δυο γονείς να κάνουν θυσία για να αποκτήσουν αγόρι του είπε: "Και για το τι άνθρωπος θα γίνει δεν κάνετε θυσία;")
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Στην ερώτηση γιατί οι άνθρωποι ελεούν τους ζητιάνους αλλά όχι τους φιλόσοφους, απάντησε:
Ὅτι χωλοὶ μὲν καὶ τυφλοὶ γενέσθαι ἐλπίζουσι, φιλοσοφῆσαι δ' οὐδέποτε.
(Γιατί θεωρούν πιθανό να κουτσαθούν ή να στραβωθούν μαι μέρα, αλλά να γίνουν φιλόσοφοι, ποτέ)
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Διογένης ο ΚυνικόςTags: philosophy ancient-greeks
the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.
James Henry BreastedTags: ancient-greeks nervous-system ancient-medicine circulatory-system
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?
Andrew LangTags: belief fairy-tales fairies egyptian indians ancient-greeks peoples
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