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Greeks were fit to rule barbarians as the latter's ruling principle is "brawn", that is, the dominion of slavish men over women through physical superiority, reducing the status (taxis) of women to that of slaves, as opposed to the civility of the Greeks' "brains" over "brawns" rule, which differentiates between the roles of women and slaves. [1]
I could offer opinions that brains triumph over brawn, or that with wit and cunning it's easier to defeat enemies, or maybe as noted above don't keep waiting for something better to come along, although this really doesn't seem to be conveyed by the meaning at all in context.
[1] [2] The series started by the book, the "Brain & Brawn Ship series", is sometimes called the "Ship Who Sang series". [3] [4] [5] The protagonist of the 1969 novel and all the early stories is a cyborg, Helva, a human being and a spaceship, or "brainship". The five older stories are revised under their original titles as the first five ...
Steve's father invents a microscopic camera that lets doctors insert it into patient's brains to search for brain damage. He is asked to showcase the camera in hospitals across Russia, prompting them to move. Steve, not wanting to move away from his friends, tries to think of an idea.
It had previously been thought the brains of mammals generally grew over time in the wake of the dinosaurs’ demise. Mammals put brawn before brains after dinosaur extinction – study Skip to ...
There were two teams comprising two contestants each; two celebrity guests formed the "Brain" portion (hosted by Davis) and two other contestants formed the "Brawn" portion (hosted by Lescoulie). The complex structure of the show puzzled audiences and sponsors (it ran as a sustaining program) and was cancelled after just three or four months.
Oxford University Press’s word of 2024 was “brain rot.”The year also gave us a flurry of TikToks documenting “bed rotting.” What's with all this rotting — and is it a trend we should ...
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.