
	Where results make sense

Topic: Athenian Talent

Related Topics

Athenian democracy

Athenian Empire

Athenian League

Athenian expedition

Cephissus Athenian plain

Athenian League football

Athenian Federation

Athenian monarchy

Athenian government

Athenian constitution

Athenian trials

Athenian culture

In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

Damian Green

Sumner Redstone

Crimson Tide

Tommy Tuberville

Bill Clinton

Wayne Rooney

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Wake Forest

Grand Slam

Oklahoma State

	Hellenistic Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 267 BC Ptolemy II persuaded the Greek cities to revolt against Antigonus, in what became the Chremonidian War, after the Athenian leader Chremonides.
		Aratus preferred distant Macedon to nearby Sparta, and allied himself with Doson, who in 222 defeated the Spartans and annexed their city – the first time Sparta had ever been occupied by a foreign power.
		Philip V, who came to power when Doson died in 221, was the last Greek ruler with both the talent and the opportunity to unite Greece and preserve its independence against the "cloud rising in the west": the ever-increasing power of Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hellenistic_Greece (1880 words)

	Political Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Ultimately his recommendation is that the particular conditions of the modern world require that those who agree with his arguments should, to the greatest possible degree, withdraw from the world into communities where the old morality can be kept alive until the time is right for it to re-emerge.
		The virtues that are expressed in a society organized primarily around family and kinship networks have to be expressed differently in a society organized around the principle of the equality of citizens and the activity of politics.
		In MacIntyre's view, much of Athenian philosophy and art is engaged in redefining the heroic virtues to make them fit the new context of the polis; again we see how philosophy and society are interrelated, with changes in society leading to changes in philosophy.
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/p-macint.htm (12164 words)

	VDH's Private Papers :: A War Like No Other
		Yet the younger Pericles was subsequently executed by an Athenian jury in an infamous scapegoating frenzy during the battle’s aftermath.
		The history is also full of bizarre examples of how ingenious Greeks diverted their singular energy and talent to find horrific ways of killing and maiming one another, from crafting a fire cannon to torch trapped soldiers to throwing overboard thousands of captured rowers.
		He waxed eloquently over the Athenian right-wing coup of 411 and its eccentric godhead Antiphon—even as he praised the wartime resiliency of democracies.
	www.victorhanson.com /Books/AWarLikeNoOther.html (3774 words)

	Drachma - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Tetradrachm from Athens about 490 BC The 5th century BC Athenian tetradrachm ("four drachmae") coin was the most widely used coin in the Greek world prior to Alexander the Great.
		It featured the helmeted profile bust of Athena on the obverse (front) and an owl on the reverse (back).
		Minae and talents were never actually minted: they represented weight measures used for commodities (e.g.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/d/r/a/Drachma.html (626 words)

	Archaeology (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture)
		The student who copied this manuscript had a lively talent for drawing, seen here in his sketches of the Baths of Diocletian.
		Valla shows that the text could not have been written in the fourth century, the age of Constantine the Great, by revealing many anachronisms in form and content.
		The texts of a late antique Christian theologian were ascribed during the Middle Ages to Saint Paul's sole Athenian convert, Dionysius.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/vatican/arch.html (2689 words)

	Greek mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For obvious reasons, this generation was extremely popular among the Athenian tragedians.
		In Greek mythology, generally a sign of divinity or partial divinity was extreme beauty (usually accompanied by talent or ingenuity).
		Male characters (Hercules, Paris, Ajax, etc.) are often times described as "buff", strong, and talented in the ways of war.
	www.photius.com /religion/greek_gods.html (2666 words)

	The Biographical Encyclopedia of Rebetika Musicians
		His friendship with Batis, Markos and Stratos and the fact that he was a talented artist, gave him the opportunity to record many songs during the pre-war era.
		An extremely talented musician, Dhelias was the only major rebetica figure to succumbto to hard drugs.
		There were some other people who played but had no talent.
	www.spectacularopticals.com /BER.html (5092 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Education
		Girls were subjected to the same severe discipline, not so much to emphasize the equality of the sexes as to train the sturdy mothers of a warrior race.
		The ideal of Athenian education was the completely developed man. Beauty of mind and body, the cultivaation of every inborn faculty and energy, harmony between thought and life, decorum, temperance, and regularity -- such were the results aimed at in the home and in the school, in social intercourse, and in civic relation.
		The fatherland has produced and brought us up that we may devote to its use the finest capacitites of our mind, talent, and understanding.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05295b.htm (10791 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)