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Platonic love [1] is a type of love in which sexual desire or romantic features are nonexistent or have been suppressed, sublimated, or purgated, but it means more than simple friendship. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term is derived from the name of Greek philosopher Plato , though the philosopher never used the term himself.
Greek Anthology, vi, 1. Some traveller, who stilled here his tormenting thirst in the heat, moulded in bronze and dedicated ex voto this servant of the Nymphs, the damp songster who loves the rain, the frog who takes joy in light fountains; for it guided him to the water, as he wandered, singing opportunely with its amphibious mouth from the ...
Српски / srpski: Platon Atanacković (1788 -1867) je bio episkop budimski (1839-1851) i bački (1851-1867), pisac, politički radnik i veliki dobrotvor srpske prosvete. English: Platon Atanacković (1788 -1867) was the bishop of Buda (1839-1851) and Bačka (1851-1867), a writer, political worker and a great benefactor of Serbian education.
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La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (The Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea), or simply the Polifemo, is a literary work written by Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.The poem, though borrowing heavily from prior literary sources of Greek and Roman Antiquity, attempts to go beyond the established versions of the myth by reconfiguring the narrative structure handed down by Ovid.
The Charmides (/ ˈ k ɑːr m ɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance," "self-control," or "restraint."
Georgios Gemistos Plethon was born in Constantinople in 1355/1360. [11] Raised in a family of well-educated Orthodox Christians, [12] he studied in Constantinople and Adrianople, before returning to Constantinople and establishing himself as a teacher of philosophy. [13]
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Плато́нов, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəvʲɪtɕ plɐˈtonəf]; né Klimentov [Климе́нтов]; 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1899 [1] – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet.