But you know, ever since the ancient Greeks - Thucydides wrote about the desire for honor.
The Ancient Greeks show us what happens when we overreach, trying to win too much.
The ancient Greeks - and other ancients - knew well of the benefits of physical activities.
He said the ancient Greeks held wrestling and boxing competitions starting around 700 B.
The Ancient Greeks reduced character to four basic virtues, which remained its foundation until 1992.
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The ancient Greeks would consider that their characters were unbalanced, with their humours in the wrong proportions.
"Finding shapes is one of the great pastimes that goes back to the ancient Greeks, " he says.
The ancient Greeks derived a structure for a speech for precisely this occasion.
In fact, he had found a harmony and abstraction in all things that would have delighted the ancient Greeks.
Proverbially, the ancient Greeks were great originators, the ones who came up with the brightest new ideas in art and science.
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Modern governments play a much larger role in the economy than the ancient Greeks or the founding fathers could have imagined.
The ancient Greeks, when brand-new democracy got too much for them, knew the calming oblivion of eating the lotus or sipping nepenthe.
The other is a conviction, shared with the ancient Greeks and Machiavelli, that good citizens matter more to free societies than good institutions.
The ancient Greeks and Romans understood this technique for creating the illusion of depth, but the skill was lost until Brunelleschi rediscovered it.
For this reason, among others, Jaki says neither the ancient Greeks nor Romans produced modern science, which depends greatly on the idea of progress.
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Any one who seeks to casts these decisions in terms of absolutes should look both at the modern Middle East and the Ancient Greeks.
The race, which began inauspiciously with eight runners in 2004, takes its name from the ancient Greeks from Sparta who emphasized physical training and discipline.
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Furthermore, the ancient Greeks referred to the Persians as barbarians too.
And light is a symbol of purity - the bright, white, pure, stunning light of the ancient Greeks was something that fed into the Aryan myth.
Some ways of falling in love seem like insanity and that I believe is why the ancient Greeks regarded the experience as being 'possessed' by Aphrodite.
Its fiery colour and erratic movement across the night sky terrified the ancient Greeks and Romans, causing them to name the planet after their gods of war.
There are two aspects to humans, said the ancient Greeks.
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The Ancient Greeks and Romans carried red flags in battles, and as late as the 1800s soldiers wore red in the field as a way to intimidate their enemies.
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If the ancient Greeks referred to the Macedonians as barbarians only because of political conflict, then why other Greek tribes are not called barbarian or non-Greek by the ancient Greeks.
Dating back to the 6th Century BC, the red-figure krater (a large vessel the ancient Greeks used to mix water and wine) shows in exquisite detail the death of Lycian king Sarpedon in the Trojan War.
The ancient Greeks had two different words for time: chronos for ordinary time and kairos for time of special quality -- a particularly propitious time for which our "right time" is a rather weak translation.
Millennia before the current war between the West and Islam the war Obama insists does not exist in the first place the ancient Greeks (forebears of Western civilization) warred with the Persians (forebears of the soon-to-be-nuclear Islamic theocracy, Iran).
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The ancient Greeks called very clearly all non-Greeks barbarians (Macedonians and Persians included), and any try to change the meaning of that word only in the case of the Macedonians, is ridiculous and can be ascribed as siding with the modern Greek propaganda.
The MIT mathematicians, that is, sidestepped a weak spot that had plagued cryptographers ever since the days of the ancient Greeks: How do sender and receiver hand off a key without risking that their communication channel or their courier will be compromised in some way?
It is the Ibiza the ancient Greeks used to call the 'pine-covered island', a fertile land where almost every patch of soil is filled with trees bearing different fruits - figs, quinces, lemons, carob seeds and almonds - so that the surrounding air is perfumed with their ripening scent.
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