Consider the ancient Greek myth explaining seasons.

I was somewhat interested in ancient Greek, but I don't think that we should force the entire population to learn a subject like ancient Greek.

One thing I often ask about is ancient Greek and how this relates.

So I've come up with an alternative, which is Sitopia, from the ancient Greek, sitos for food, and topos for place.

I am sure that all members know what the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said Ta panta rhei Everything in life is in flux .

BERLIN Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things. He might have added that crisis is their mother.

We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

Ancient Greek had two words for the people the demos of democracy and the laos of the mob. With his puerile call to shift the burden of his own errors and his reluctance to reform onto the shoulders of Greece s fellow Europeans, Tsipras is leaning toward the latter manifestation and promoting the worst version of Greek politics.

Europe s tragedy is not the result of an evil plot, but stems, rather, from a lack of coherent policies. As in ancient Greek tragedies, misconceptions and a sheer lack of understanding have had unintended but fateful consequences.

This has not always been so. In the ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian religions, women were perceived as inferior to men. But this notion has been contentious in the West for centuries.  Nowadays, gender equality has become the norm.

This has not always been so. In the ancient Greek, Jewish, and Christian religions, women were perceived as inferior to men. But this notion has been contentious in the West for centuries. Nowadays, gender equality has become the norm.

Recalling also its resolution 48 11 of 25 October 1993, which, inter alia, revived the ancient Greek tradition of ekecheiria or Olympic Truce with the aim of ensuring the safe passage and participation of athletes and others at the Games,

Those whom the gods would destroy, they grant their wishes. Those in Europe and around the world who yearn for a victory by John Kerry in the US presidential election ought to keep that bit of ancient Greek wisdom in mind.

And therefore, perhaps we had brought those characteristics with us from that ancient, ancient past.

And if it looks like Greek to you, it's because, well, it's Greek.

But only as he grew older did he develop a certain consolation from an ancient Greek notion but followed by other cultures as well that if you could accomplish something worthy in your life, you could live on in the memory of others.

Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries

It's not ancient history.

Europe s Greek Failure

A Greek Suicide?

Reforming Greek Reform

The Greek Conundrum

Recently, during a dive in the waters at Krasnodar, in southern Russia, Putin miraculously salvaged two ancient Greek urns. Russians laughter turned Homeric when Putin s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, inexplicably announced that the urns had been placed there to give Putin a sense of importance.

Confucius, an ancient Chinese thinker,

Our pleasures are really ancient.

More recently, finding ancient history.

You practice ancient Balinese arts.

I bought an ancient lamp.

You and your ancient fathers?

You and your ancient fathers?

You and your ancient ancestors?

And our ancient ancestors too?

You and your ancient ancestors?

And our ancient ancestors too?

You and your ancient forefathers?

You and your ancient forefathers?

You and your ancient sires.

You and your ancient sires.

The fact that the word democracy derives from ancient Greek, and that one can discern the kernel of democratic thought in Greek philosophy, by no means implies that democracy is embedded in the West s political DNA. Only after centuries of absolutist rule, extremism, war, revolution, and oppression can the West as a whole reasonably claim to be free, democratic, peaceful, and prosperous and even now there are exceptions.

A Greek Morality Tale

The Greek Time Bomb

The Greek Austerity Myth

Greek Lessons for Europe

The Greek Budget Myth

My mother is Greek.