Word: herodotusã
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...bipolar swings between temptation and abstinence evoke the anxieties of a more ancient city-state. The ancient Athenians viewed the world as teeming with temptations—food, alcohol, clothing, sex—and sophrosyne (self-restraint) was paramount to protecting their democratic way of life. In Herodotus??s chauvinistic “Histories,” the Greeks overcame the invading Persians because their army maintained sophrosyne, eating only the sparsest food, while the Persians indulged in luxuries even as they overstretched their empire, depleting the land as they feasted on it, marching westward in their...
...Classics assistant professor Francesca Schironi. “You can’t read Pindar nonstop with two years of Greek.”Doing poorly in the six-hour general examination—which consists of sight translations and analyses of passages from writers ranging from Terence to Herodotus??can jeopardize Classics concentrators’ chances of receiving honors and even graduating.But the sort of broad-based, survey knowledge that the generals were intended to encourage won’t be lost. To compensate for the demise of the examinations, all concentrators will need to take...
...exam requires students to be able to translate and analyze a variety of canonical Latin and Greek texts on sight, including portions of Herodotus?? Histories, Homer’s Iliad, and Virgil’s Eclogues...
...Illustrating that, despite time, nothing really changes, the film’s modern portrayal of Thermopylae diverges from Herodotus?? only to embrace our Western, 21st. century democratic biases. The heroic Spartan warriors fight for oddly modern Western values, in contrast to those of their actual society. At a climactic point in the film, Leonidas encourages his men: “A new age has come, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend...
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