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ΧαιÏ￾ετε,

Recently I have been assigned to write a rhetoric text for my Greek course. I chose to take Greek itself as subject, but decided to use an unorthodox ΠÏ￾οθεσις: I stated that Greek is a condition for civilisation.
As I started doing research, it seemed more and more plausible that my statement isn't all that absurd.
My Narratio could be summarised as the following:

The Greeks, as they knew Greek, had a florishing civilisation. ...

I can't seem to find an etymology that traces the root of φιλέω, φίλος, φίλιος back to Indo European, but something occurred to me recently and I'd like to know if it's plausible or already known to be false or what. :)

The 3 aforementioned words have various meanings including "friend", "friendly", "dear", "to like", "to love", and interestingly also "to kiss". A related noun φίλημα even ...

By which method should one determine which meal he or she is eating? Should they come by time of day? That would mean breakfast in the morning, lunch in the early afternoon, and dinner in the evening? Should they be classified by the order they come in? Therefore, even if you eat your first meal at 3 pm it is still breakfast because it is your first meal of the day. In this system, skipping ...

icome from china, i studied ancient greek history, did you have article about athenian democracy email to me? now ,i will introduce to my students. athenian democracy was the first democracy of the world.china need democracy ,so we must study ancient and modern democracy of western.
thanks
my email:zhx1973@yahoo.com.cn

Here's my question for all of the bright people out there. I have recently returned to school after a 5 year hiatus (is that a latin word btw?) and I would like to know why a lot of very intelligent professors that I have no longer seem to be curious about anything? Any ideas it seems that the more education a person recieves the less they are curious.

FYI

For all readers of Patristic Greek and Ecclesiastical Latin texts on matters of faith and morals, there is now a Greek/Latin/English edtion, of Denzinger, being published. It may be out as early as December 07. This will be the first bilingual English edition. Details below.

Brian

Denzinger-Hünermann, Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum (40th edition) Robert L. Fastiggi, General Editor of the English edition
To be published by Ignatius Press.

I want to tap the vast literary knowledge and experience of Textkit to see if we can find a clear example of the situation of consensual sex before marriage (ποÏ￾νεια and other technical terms will not cut it). We were talking over at http://godgab.org about the issue of pre-marital sex and Christianity and noted that the Bible does not seem to address the issue directly. So I am wondering ...

What is energy?

I was asked by my parents to explain them about electricity, and ended
babbling nonsense about energy and that stuff. Soon I realized that I did
not know what energy is. I am in a good company. Searching the
Internet, I discovered that no one knows that. Have we replaced the
concept of God with another concept we so “scientificallyâ€￾ like to call
energy?

There seems to be three states of consideration. I know not if these are complete, but for the present inquiry, i can think of no more. Now, these three states are in relationship to the mind:reality, thinking and communication. Reality is related to the physical world in which one finds oneself. this is in communication the external medium about which ideas are formed and by which communication is affored. However, if considered in an absoult ...

The tobacco topic got me thinking about the whole rising-cost-of-health-care issue, and I want to know what the people here think. I don't know what the solution is to this problem, and while I do know some of the pros and cons of various approaches to health care, I also know that I am out of my depth here.