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Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. [1] In modern Greek , kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'. It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for ' time '; the other being chronos ( χρόνος ).
The theme of Kairos was felt as extremely important during the Middle Ages. Carmina Burana 16, a famous poem about Fortune, mentions Kairos in this way: "verum est quod legitur, fronte capillata, sed plerumque sequitur occasio calvata"; which means "As it is read, it is true that that a forehead may have hair, but it is usually followed by the ...
Kairos (καιρός), god of signifies a proper or opportune time for action. Kakia (Kακία), spirit of vice and moral badness; Kallone (Καλλονή), spirit of beauty; Kalokagathia (Καλοκαγαθια), spirit of nobility and goodness; The Keres (Κῆρες), spirit of violent or cruel death
Kairos is an appeal to the timeliness or context in which a presentation is publicized, which includes contextual factors external to the presentation itself but still capable of affecting the audience's reception to its arguments or messaging, such as the time in which a presentation is taking place, the place in which an argument or message ...
Kairosis is the literary effect of fulfillment in time.This effect is normally associated with the epic/novel genre of literature, and can be understood by the analogy "as catharsis is to the dramatic, so kenosis is to the lyric, so kairosis is to the epic/novel."
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Kairos is the ancient Greek concept of a propitious time for action. Kairos may also refer to: Groups, organizations, companies. Kairos HQ, formerly the Kairos ...
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