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In Greek mythology, Melete / ˈ m ɛ l ɪ t iː / (Ancient Greek: Μελέτη) was one of the three original Boeotian muses before the Nine Olympian Muses were founded. Her sisters were Aoede and Mneme. [1] She was the muse of thought and meditation. Melete literally means "ponder" and "contemplation" in Greek.
Meditations (Koinē Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, romanized: Ta eis heauton, lit. ''Things Unto Himself'') is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161-180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". [11] [12] In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, [12] [13] before which the Greek word theoria was used for ...
O methystakas / Ο μεθύστακας (The Drunkard), George Tzavellas, 1950; Kyriakatiko xypnima / Κυριακάτικο Ξύπνημα (Windfall in Athens), Michael Cacoyannis, 1954
Ware asserts that "the distinctive tenets of the 17th-century Western quietists is not characteristic of Greek hesychasm". [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The Catholic Church has never expressed any condemnation of Palamism, and uses in its liturgy readings from the work of Nicholas Kabasilas , a supporter of Palamas in the controversy that took place in ...
Title Release date Notes Amphitryon: 1935 Antigone: 1961 Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops: 1961 peplum film: Atlantis: 2013-2015 the show, submarine pilot Jason washes up on the shores of legendary Atlantis and must navigate the powerful leaders of the mythological realm.
US film - The story of Jason and Argonauts, a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Argonauts: 1971 Russian: Аргонавты USSR - animated film Argonavtebi, or, a Merry Chronicle of a Dangerous Journey: 1986 USSR - TV movie
Vipassana meditation, presented as a centuries-old meditation system, was a 19th-century reinvention, [135] which gained popularity in south-east due to the accessibility of the Buddhist sutras through English translations from the Pali Text Society. [118] It was brought to western attention in the 19th century by the Theosophical Society.