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Philhellenism comes from the Greek word “philos”, meaning friend and Hellenism, meaning Greekness (for want of a better word), it is to have a love, a passion, an enthusiasm, an obsession even,...
Chronos and Kairos Many people, including the Greeks themselves, think the ancient Greek words for time “Chronos” and “Kairos“, have the same meaning, well, in a way, they do. Invariably, when...
Here’s another Greek word, said to be “untranslatable”, however, the more I look into so-called “untranslatable” Greek words, I’m not sure there is such a thing. Once you grasp the meaning, get...
What is a demon, or, in Greek, a ‘daimon’? You are probably thinking; a malevolent being, something rather devilish, something negative. Am I right? Sorry folks but you’re wrong! You can be...
Originally the word I was going to write about today was petrichor, not a true Greek word, as it was invented by two Australians in 1964 but it is derived from two...
I expect you all know a few Greek words, perhaps the most widely known being “Eucharisto” or “Efharisto”, meaning Thank You. Ευχαριστώ, in Modern Greek the letter combination “eu” (epsilon-upsilon) is pronounced...
“Happiness depends on ourselves” Aristotle What did Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, mean by this? Aristotle’s philosophy on happiness was that it comes from within us, from being honest, having pride, knowing...
The Greek language has many mysterious words, words that we can try to express in another tongue, but rarely succeed in doing so. Words better understood by experiencing them rather than speaking them....
Greek ranks as the richest language in the world; Europe’s oldest, with five million words and seventy million word types, existing for more than four thousand years. Other ancient languages did exist before Greek,...
Philotimo is an ancient Greek word, which since the time of the Greek philosophers, has remained untranslatable. This doesn’t mean that the word can’t be explained or that the feeling of it,...
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