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  2. Gnosis - Wikipedia

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    Gnosis is a feminine Greek noun which means "knowledge" or "awareness." [10] It is often used for personal knowledge compared with intellectual knowledge (εἴδειν eídein), as with the French connaître compared with savoir, the Portuguese conhecer compared with saber, the Spanish conocer compared with saber, the Italian conoscere compared with sapere, the German kennen rather than ...

  3. Oikos - Wikipedia

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    Oikos (Ancient Greek: οἶκος Ancient Greek pronunciation:; pl.: οἶκοι) was, in Ancient Greece, two related but distinct concepts: the family and the family's house. [a] Its meaning shifted even within texts. [1] The oikos was the basic unit of society in most Greek city-states

  4. Gnosticism - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Gospel of Judas Mandaean Beth Manda in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.

  5. Gnosiology - Wikipedia

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    The term "gnosiology" (Modern Greek: γνωσιολογία) is used more commonly in Modern Greek than in English. As a philosophical concept, gnosiology broadly means the theory of knowledge, which in ancient Greek philosophy was perceived as a combination of sensory perception and intellect and then made into memory (called the mnemonic system

  6. Gnomic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός (gnomikos) "appertaining to an opinion or aphorism").

  7. Ancient Greek personal names - Wikipedia

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    The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.

  8. Oikeiôsis - Wikipedia

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    Oikeiôsis is rooted in the word oikos (οἶκος). [2] Oikos is the word for household, house, or family, and can be seen in modern English words like economics and ecology (Greek oiko- to Classical Latin oeco- to Medieval Latin eco-).

  9. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.