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In political history, stasis (Ancient Greek: στάσις in the sense of "faction, discord"; plural: staseis) refers to an episode of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state or polis. It was the result of opposition between groups of citizens, fighting over the constitution of the city or over social and economic problems. [1]
Stasis (political history), a period of civil war within an ancient Greek city-state; Stasis (biology), a block of little or no evolutionary change in a species, in the punctuated equilibrium model of evolutionary biology; Stasis (fiction), a concept in science fiction in which time or motion is stopped
Ecstasy (from the Ancient Greek ἔκστασις ekstasis, "to be or stand outside oneself, a removal to elsewhere" from ek-"out," and stasis "a stand, or a standoff of forces") is a term used in existential philosophy to mean "outside-itself".
In the Greek tradition, at the third and final stasis, the priest will sprinkle rosewater on the epitaphios and the congregation, symbolising the anointing of Christ's body with spices. All three of stasis end with the same eulogy they begin while the officiating priest or high priest incenses the epitaph on all four sides.
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples sacc-[1]bag: Greek: σάκκος (sákkos): sack sacchar-[2]sugar: Greek: σάκχαρ, σάκχαρον (sákkharon)
Natural willing designates the movement of a creature in accordance with the principle (logos (Greek: λόγος)) of its nature towards the fulfilment (telos (Greek: τέλος), stasis (Greek: στάσις)) of its being. Gnomic willing, on the other hand, designates that form of willing in which a person engages in a process of deliberation ...
In the Greek and Roman traditions, rhetorical practices are often but not always arguments. Aristotle, as well as later writers on rhetoric, such as Cicero and Quintilian, devoted considerable attention to developing and formalizing the discipline of rhetorical invention. Two important concepts within invention were topoi and stasis.