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	Seven Sages of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Seven Sages are known for their practical wisdom which "consisted of pithy and memorable dicta".
		Plato provides the earliest list of the so-called Seven Sages; although Simonides, a century earlier, sets out to answer Pittacus and Cleobulus as though striving for a place on the list.
		In Plato's dialogue, Socrates obliquely refers to a tale of the Seven Sages which points out that humility is the basis of wisdom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seven_Sages_of_Greece (411 words)

	Detailed Country Profile: Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Greece is a country in South East Europe and member of the European Union.
		In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between royalist supporters of the king and communist rebels.
		Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992); it became the 12th member of the euro zone in 2001.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/gr (579 words)

	Theosophy article: "The Number Seven" by Blavatsky
		The number seven was considered sacred not only by all the cultured nations of antiquity and the East, but was held in the greatest reverence even by the later nations of the West.
		The Egyptians had seven original and higher gods; the Phœnicians seven kabiris; the Persians, seven sacred horses of Mithra; the Parsees, seven angels opposed by seven demons, and seven celestial abodes paralleled by seven lower regions.
		Hence, seven pipes in the syrinx of the god Pan (or Nature), their gradually diminishing proportion of shape representing the distance between the planets and between the latter and the earth--and, the seven-stringed lyre of Apollo.
	www.blavatsky.net /blavatsky/arts/NumberSeven.htm (1517 words)

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		He is numbered among the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Thales is remembered for arguing that water is the essence of all things.
		The Ionians were well-traveled and had many dealings with Egypt and Babylon, and it is possible that Thales had studied in Egypt as a young man. In any event, Thales was almost certainly exposed to Egyptian mythology, astronomy, and mathematics, as well as other traditions alien to the Homeric traditions of Greece.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/t/th/thales.html (425 words)

	Travel around Greece, Peloponnesos, Corinth
		The city was governed by a local oligarchy or by tyrants, such as the cruel Periander, who was yet considered one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and imposed considerable taxes on the passage of goods across the Isthmus.
		BC Corinth was one of the three major powers in Greece, and took part in all the battles against the Persians.
		After the Persians ceased to be a danger to Greece, her intense rivalry with Athens reduced Corinth to a secondary position.
	greece-private.com /corinth.htm (1013 words)

	Thales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thales (in Greek: Θαλης) of Miletus (circa 635 BC - 543 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Early sources report that one of Anaximander's more famous pupils, Pythagoras, visited Thales as a young man, and that the sage advised him to travel to Egypt to further his philosophical and mathematical studies.
		Many philosophers followed Thales' lead in searching for explanations in nature rather than in the supernatural; others returned to supernatural explanations, but couched in the language of philosophy, rather than myth or religion.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/t/th/thales.html (392 words)

	Encyclopedia: Seven Sages of Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pittacus was the son of Hyrradius, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Chilon of Sparta or Chilo of Sparta was a Lacedaemonian, son of Damagetus and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Periander was the second tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Seven-Sages-of-Greece (894 words)

	aesop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Aesop.html (1048 words)

	Ancient Greek titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These were a citizen-militia, and so were armed as spearmen, which are relatively easy to equip and maintain, mainly they represented the middle class, who could afford the cost of the armaments.
		Almost all the famous men of ancient Greece, even the philosophers and playwrights, fought as a hoplite in some battle or another.
		Many of them were combined by the brilliant general Epaminondas, whose tactics formed the basis for the Macedonian phalanx of Philip II of Macedon, used as a back-up to his cavalry.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Ancient-Greek-titles (736 words)

	Silver Sage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The closely related genera ''Perovskia'' and ''Phlomis'' are also known as sage; Russian Sage, (''Perovskia atriplicifolia''), native to the Crimea south to Afganistan and Pakistan, is grown as an ornamental plant because of its blue-violet sprays of flowers and its adaptability to either sun or part shade.
		Actually, SAGE was a centralized, automated air defense system developed by the U.S. in the 1950s to counter a perceived (but largely imaginary) Soviet strategic bombing threat.
		IBM's role in SAGE (the design and manufacture of the AN/FSQ-7 computer, a vacuum tube computer with ferrite core memory based on the Whirlwind) was an important factor leading to IBM's domination of the computer industry.
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	The Seven Sages, Greek Mythology Link
		More important perhaps is that there is no agreement as who the sages were, a discrepancy that may arise from the variety of the accounts, or because different authors answer differently the question 'Who is wise?' [see Lists of the Seven Sages].
		Thales of Miletus, the first to be called Sage, was an astronomer (Phoenician by descent according to Herodotus), often dated by the eclipse of the sun that he is said to have predicted, the same eclipse that interrupted a war between the Lydians and the Medes.
		Another sage, Anacharsis, is said to have laughed at Solon for thinking that he could tame the injustice of the citizens by writing laws.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/SevenSages.html (10063 words)

	Seven Sages of Greece -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		620 BC-550 BC) was the title given by (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek tradition to seven wise ancient Greek men who were philosophers, statesmen and law-givers.
		(A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs) Solon of (The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) Athens "Nothing in excess".
		In Plato's dialogue, Socrates obliquely refers to a tale of the Seven Sages which points out that (A humble feeling) humility is the basis of (The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight) wisdom.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/Se/Seven_Sages_of_Greece.htm (537 words)

	Seven sages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The seven sages: a group of semi-legendary wise people from the Archaic age, often regarded as the founders of Greek philosophy.
		The idea of seven sages who taught mankind is not without parallels in ancient legend, and many civilizations -including the Greek culture- believed that once, there had been teachers to help mankind.
		Real philosophy began later, but the age of the seven sages marks the beginning of doubt about older beliefs - and this doubt was of course the first step towards a better understanding of reality.
	www.livius.org /se-sg/7sages/seven_sages.html (488 words)

	Anglo-Hellenic Teacher Recruitment - English Teachers in Greece
		According to Diogenes Laertius, Sitia was the home of Myson of Chen, one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
		The town was later expanded and fortified by the Venetians who used it as a base of operations for the Eastern Mediterranean.
		Sitia has so far been spared the blessings of mass tourism; even though there is a long and beautiful beach along the road leading to Vai and several places of historical interest, the town is visited by few tourists and has largely kept its genuine mediterranean flair.
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	Seven Sages Speech. Daniel B. Levine "The Philosophical Pleiad and College Teaching"
		I've always been interested in the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece, and would like to share some thoughts on their relevance to our own profession: teaching.
		The Greeks called him 'the sage astronomer,' and attributed to him treatises on the Solstice, and the Equinox, and said that he was the first Greek to predict solar eclipses.
		Plutarch, Dinner of the Seven Sages (Moralia 146b ff) Tr.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Sages.html (1414 words)

	Chapter Set Scene <i>to</i> Seven Weeks' War of S by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
		Seven Bodies in Alchemy Sun is gold, moon silver, Mars iron, Mercury quicksilver, Saturn lead, Jupiter tin, and Venus copper.
		Seven Champions of Christendom is by Richard Johnson, who lived in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. St. George of England was seven years imprisoned by the Almidor, the fl King of Morocco.
		Anthony of Italy, with the other champions, was enchanted into a deep sleep in the Black Castle, and was released by St. George's three sons, who quenched the seven lamps by water from the enchanted fountain.
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	INTERNATIONAL WRITERS' & TRANSLATORS' CENTER OF RHODES. GREECE
		During the VI century, Kleovoulos - the tyrant of Lindos and one of the seven sages of Greece - flourishes.
		The most famous was the bronze statue of the "Colossus", which was dedicated to the god Helios and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
		This resulted in a strong diplomatic reaction by Greece and the final treaty of Sθvres was signed on the 10th of August 1920.
	www.literarycentre.gr /english/rhodes/rhodeshistory.html (5634 words)

	Seven Sages Of Greece Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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	Thales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		635 BC-543 BC), also known as Thales the Milesian, was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
		Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition as well as the father of science.
		It was said that Thales had no children but adopted his nephew as his son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thales (1046 words)

	Athanasius Schaefer: Universal Reformation of the Whole Wide World
		In this penury of fitting personages Apollo gave the charge of the Universal Reformation to the Seven Wise Men of Greece, who are of great repute in Parnassus, and are conceived by all men to have found the receipt of washing flmoors white, which antiquity laboured after in vain.
		On the fourteenth of the last month the seven wise men, with the aforesaid addition, accompanied by a train of the choicest vertuosi of this State, went to the Delfick Palace, and the place appropriated for the Reformation.
		It was strange a man who was the very prime sage of Latin writers should be so lavish of authority, which, should be guarded more jealously then women's honor, since the wisest men did all agree that twenty pound of blood taken from the life-vain was well imployed to gain but one ounce of jurisdiction.
	www.athanasius.com /esoteric/prophparacelsus.htm (3782 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.utm.edu /research/iep/t/thales.htm (9340 words)

	The seven sages of ancient Greece by Constantine Cavarnos, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1884729169
		The seven sages of ancient Greece: The lives and teachings of the earliest Greek philosophers, Thales, Pittacos, Bias, Solon, Cleobulos, Myson, Chilon
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	Thales of Miletus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thales was an avid traveller as Hieronymus of Rhodes indicates in his report that Thales measured the pyramids by their shadow, having observed the time when our shadow is equal to our height.
		Thales was regarded as one of the "Seven Sages" of ancient
		He was the first to determine the sun's course from solstice to solstice, and according to some the first to declare the size of the sun to be one seven hundred and twentieth part of the solar circle, and the size of the moon to be the same fraction of the lunar circle...
	www.philosophy.gr /presocratics/thales.htm (1044 words)

	Jihad Watch: Seven stages to jihad
		To achieve the elevated state of being in jihad, the text highlights seven degrees, or stages, that a Muslim must ascend mentally.
		The Seven Wonders of the World, both those of Antiquity and those other Seven of the Middle Ages (the seventh is sometimes described, in reference books, as "The Mosque of St. Sophia at Constantinople").
		The SevenSisters, the kind that once supplied husbands, by graduation, to the males of the Ivy League, and now those graduates, their starter marriages out of the way, are among those limited few permitted to attend those singles-again mixers advertised so hopefully at the back of the toniest alumni magazines.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/008506.php (659 words)

	Competition between Philosophers
		The muse Calliope surrounded by Socrates and the Seven Sages - Solon, Thales, Bias of Priene, Cleobulos, Periander, Pittacos of Mytilene and Chilon.
		The greatest philosophers of Greece compete in Delphi in order to find who is the best.
		Of these (the Seven Sages) were Thales of Miletus, Pittacus of Mytilene, Bias of Priene, our own Solon, Cleobulus of Lindus, and Myson of Chen, and the seventh of their company was a Spartan, Chilon....
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/competition.htm (474 words)

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		Solon: ~630- ~560 BC: Athenian statesman, poet and orator; one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.
		Included as one of the legendary Seven Sages of Greece.
		No writings survive, but he evidently was celebrated for his astronomical speculations and for his work as an early pioneer in geometrical reasoning.
	depts.washington.edu /~lsearlec/205/Supplementary/CHRONO-1.DOC (1110 words)

	sages - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Sages : A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs.
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