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	The Number Seven
		There are seven days in Creation, seven days in the week, seven graces, seven deadly sins, seven divisions in the Lord's Prayer, and seven ages in the life of man; climacteric years are seven and nine with their multiples by odd numbers; and the seventh son of a seventh son was held noble.
		Seven Senses According to ancient teaching the soul of man, or his "inward holy body" is compounded of seven properties which are under the influence of the seven planets.
		Each of her narratives, however, was confuted by seven sages, who in turn told tales of the craft of women.
	www.towerwebproductions.com /alt-lib/seven.shtml (1301 words)

	Anacharsis
		Anacharsis was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian," apparently a forerunner of the Skeptics and Cynics, though none of his authentic works have survived.
		Arriving in Athens about 589 BC, he came to the house of Solon the philosopher and lawgiver, and told Solon's slave that Anacharsis was come to visit, desired to see Solon, and wanted to enter into hospitable relations.
		He was reckoned one of the Seven Sages of Athens, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Anacharsis.html (647 words)

	solon athens -- solon athens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Solon of Athens is said to have used hellebore roots (a purgative) to poison the water in an aqueduct leading from the Pleistrus River around 590 B.C. during the siege of Cirrha.[1] Writings of the...
		B.C., Solon of Athens is said to have used hellebore roots (a purgative) to poison a water aqueduct during the siege of Cirrha, and later on, the ancient Chinese, Romans, and Greeks employed their own...
		Emergency by Kate Hayler, ISBN 0786819847 Solon: The Lawmaker of Athens by Bernard Randall, ISBN 0823938298 athens bernard randall isbn Solon: The Lawmaker of Athens by Bernard Randall, ISBN...
	www.yoathens.com /solonathens (3740 words)

	Aesop - Free Online Library
		During the reign of Peisistratus he is said to have visited Athens, on which occasion he related the fable of The Frogs asking for a King, to dissuade the citizens from attempting to exchange Peisistratus for another ruler.
		In Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages, at which Aesop is a guest, there are many jests on his original servile condition, but nothing derogatory is said about his personal appearance.
		We are further told that the Athenians erected in his honour a noble statue by the famous sculptor Lysippus, which furnishes a strong argument against the fiction of his deformity.
	aesop.thefreelibrary.com (816 words)

	Thales of Miletus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The earliest reference to the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece is in Plato's Protagoras in which he listed seven names: 'A man's ability to utter such remarks [notable, short and compressed] is to be ascribed to his perfect education.
		Diogenes recorded that 'Thales was the first to receive the name of Sage in the archonship of Damasias at Athens, when the term was applied to all the Seven Sages, as Demetrius of Phalerum [born.
		Many commentators state that Thales was named as Sage because of the practical advice he gave to Miletus in particular, and to Ionia in general.
	www.iep.utm.edu /t/thales.htm (9340 words)

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