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...Rhetoric, one of the three ancient arts of discourse, harkens back to the Greeks??€”beginning with the fifth century B.C.E. Sophists, or even earlier. Long ago, thinkers highly valued verbal persuasion and deemed it a central facet of education. The field of rhetoric changed and developed during Roman rule and onward, until Harvard itself established the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1806. It was Francis J. Child, the second professor to hold the position, who shifted the job once and for all toward literature and away from public speaking. Now, Harvard’s commitment...
...This goes all the way back to the beginning. According to The Iliad, it was not the endless wealth dreamt of by Agamemnon, but rather Helen’s beauty, that triggered the Trojan War. In a similar vein, the Greeks??€™ greatest hero, Achilles, was not motivated by rationality; more than anything, he sought kleos, an untranslatable word describing war glory, honor, and a victory over death through future remembrance. Closer to our days, similar pursuits driven by ideologies ranging from nationalism to religious enthusiasm have resulted in real tragedies later described as “unimaginable...
...understanding can be won through cooperation in a joint endeavor, without the prejudice of vested political interests? I’m not so idealistic as to suggest that a permanent peace can be won solely through the Games, or that we should press for a return to the ancient Greeks??€™ practice of an all-encompassing truce for its duration. But it is not naïve to think that through the Games, we can work to at least partially fulfill Coubertin’s goals. To be sure, it would require a radical shift...
...course, the precise demographics of an FDE will vary based on the local area’s population. But such establishments universally share the role of being to local under-21’s what the agora was to the ancient Greeks??€”an open forum to meet, eat, drink, discuss, fraternize, argue, be friends...
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