How wonderfully passionate are the many ways that Socrates and Plato try to convince us that the only safe way that leads us to happiness, is education. Plato dreamed of public libraries, public lectures, education being a basic element...
John F. Kennedy's Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961 'Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed--and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for...
I know that it may be just a detail but whenever I see depictions of the Roman Senate in session (in movies, paintings etc) senators are seated in a semicircular fashion around an open space where the speaker stands...
U.S. presidential election... -Voter turnout in 2016 dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades (!)
Aeschines' Speech on Democracy Aeschines, an ancient Athenian politician, stated back in the 4th century BC that the defining characteristic of democracy is that it is rule by the Law! Not rule by a person, a group of chosen ones,...
...when a friend stopped him and said "My friend, I must tell you something bad I heard about one of your students." Plato said, "First answer me the three tests of knowledge. One, have you personally checked if this thing...
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts —the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three...
A few months ago the US President was photographed crawling on the floor of the Oval Office, playing with a baby. This was seen as inappropriate by many as the Head of State isn't supposed to be seen on...
'A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later' I consider him to be one of the top 5 field commanders in the history of the United States Army and definitely their...
"Sire, there is no Royal Road to geometry..." (Euclid to King Ptolemy) Euclid was a Greek mathematician, also known as the “Father of Geometry”. His work 'Elements' (Στοιχεία Ευκλείδου) is one of the most important in the history of mathematics...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." –Winston Churchill A comprehension on a satisfactory level of the functions and mechanisms of propaganda makes you a better citizen. WW2 poster I always...
Epictetus (50-120AD) “Difficulties are things that show people who they really are!” A slave born in Hierapolis that was to become a saint-like figure for the Greeks and the Romans. Poor, homeless he struggled with super-human energy and dedication to ease...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." –Winston Churchill A comprehension on a satisfactory level of the function and mechanisms of propaganda makes you a better citizen. I always believed...
Check out how Britain declared war on Japan. It's the official text as dictated by W.Churchill himself. So classy! As Winston later stated: "Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a...
Galileo before the Holy Office (detail from a painting by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury) Scholars tend to forget the reason why Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church. His book on heliocentricism wasn’t a purely scientific one but touched matters of religion...
Hestia (detail) Howard David Johnson Back in the summer of 495 B.C a victorious Spartan army marches against the defenseless city of Argos. A few hours earlier that army annihilated the army of Argos. Now, the Spartan king Kleomenes leads...
G.J.Caesar on the north side of the river Rubicon No general exercising imperium could cross the Rubicon without the concession of the Senate. Sometimes the Senate would 'humiliate a general by letting him wait there infinitely. Imperium was power vested...
John William Waterhouse: Diogenes [1905]An anecdote that involves the cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (404-323 B.C.): " When some strangers (visiting Athens) expressed a wish to see Demosthenes, he (Diogenes the cynic) stretched out his middle finger and said, "There goes...
In those "darkest hours" Greece was the only allied country that kept on fighting...
(The following excerpt is from an article written by Marc Magna and was published at bodybuilding.com on Apr 07, 2014) The ancient Greeks taught us many things: democracy, philosophy, and perhaps most important to the bodybuilding community, the idea of aesthetic...
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Detail of the Erechtheion (acropolis of Athens) Some Brits ask: "How can you own something that was made back in the 5th century BC?" Some Greeks say: "Greek people want them back!" Is it that hard to comprehend that they’re all missing...
The simple gesture that put an end to the Newburgh conspiracy
"Sire, there is no Royal Road to geometry." (Euclid to King Ptolemy) Euclid was a Greek mathematician, also known as the “Father of Geometry”. His work 'Elements' (Στοιχεία Ευκλείδου) is one of the most important in the history of mathematics...
Alexander Fehling as Johann Wolfgang Goethe in “Young Goethe in Love” (2010) Protect your sense of the beautiful.
