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Recreation of the home in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne wrote A Wonder-Book. The Hawthornes had moved to The Berkshires shortly after the publication of The Scarlet Letter and it was here that he completed not only A Wonder-Book but also his novel The House of the Seven Gables. [4]
The Delphic maxims are a set of moral precepts that were inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been ...
Parabasis: In Classical Greek comedy, parabasis is 'a speech in which the chorus comes forward and addresses the audience'. A parabasis is not featured in Lysistrata . Most plays have a second parabasis near the end, and a feature akin to a parabasis is used in this play as a replacement, however it comprises exclusively two songs (strophe and ...
The fable tells how the king of the gods invited all the animals to his wedding but the tortoise never arrived. When asked why, her excuse was that she preferred her own home, so Zeus made her carry her house about forever after. That excuse in Greek was Οἶκος φίλος, οἶκος ἄριστος, literally 'the home you love is the best'.
Psichogios Publications was founded in 1979 (45 years ago) () by Mr. Thanos Psichogios who published four children's fiction titles.. In the 1980s the company was mostly known in the Greek readership for their children fiction with popular authors such as Roald Dahl, Michael Ende, Graham Greene, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and others.
Le Petit Nicolas (dubbed in Greek) – French/Indian animated cartoon series for children; (2012–2013) [ET-1] Lucky Luke (dubbed in Greek) – (1995–2002) ERT1; Μathimatika Αsteria – children's program designed to teach mathematics in a fun way; ERT3; The Number Crew – educational program designed to help teach kids aged 5–7 math; ERT3
Greek people are very proud of their food and like to make it very fresh. This was especially true when I was growing up, in the 1940s and '50s, as there wasn't much refrigeration outside the big ...
On Passions consisted of four books; of which the first three discussed the Stoic theory of emotions and the fourth book discussed therapy and had a separate title—Therapeutics. Most surviving quotations come from Books 1 and 4, although Galen also provides an account of Book 2 drawn from the 1st-century BCE Stoic philosopher Posidonius ...