all these white maroons claiming they descend from western civilization like plato and socrates when greeks weren't even considered white 100 years ago
Fun story but the Ancient Greek word arakhne (from which arachnid comes) doesn't really have any other cognates with other Indo-European languages, and doesn't seem to be back-reconstructable. In other words, it's very likely a relic of whoever lived in Greece before the Proto-Greeks arrived.
Yet, in the eyes of the Greeks he committed the sin of one-sidedness, deservedly angering Aphrodite for his neglect of her. It is only a goddess who can afford to stick to one pattern of life and bring it to perfection.
In the eyes of the Greeks (who never developed the institution of celibacy) a mortal individual can be neither altogether chaste nor completely erotic.
Critical thinking for the Greeks was a Purification Rite | by Frank Breslin | Oct, 2024 | Medium medium.com/@frankbresli... Критическое мышление для греков было обрядом очищения Прекрасный текст про критическое мышление!
This is a study of Efstatios Zouros who founded the Zouros Taverna where my family and I spent many happy hours and ate and drank like Greeks. This is why we bought a house in Greece. Grandad Zouros was an extraordinary man, and I along with many of our friends, were delighted to have known him.
"[He] wants these poll workers to [find] evidence of fraud. He’s been calling [it] "a Trojan horse," which [is alarming]. He told NPR he didn’t mean the metaphor to extend to the part where the Greeks decimate the city of Troy." “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” - Maya Angelou
"Are you guys ready to show the world that Christians will be silent no more?" said one speaker, whose nonprofit is recruiting people to become election workers.