Mr. K. helped someone out on a difficult matter. Subsequently, the latter gave Mr. K. no thanks of any kind. Mr. K. then astonished his friends by complaining loudly about the ingratitude of the person concerned. They thought Mr. K.'s behavior ill-mannered and even said: Didn't you...
'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.' Albert Einstein Once upon a time a slave traveled with his master to Baghdad. One morning, while walking through the marketplace, the slave sees Death in human form. Death looks...
At the end of his life, Steve Jobs named five undeniable truths that he realized. Don't educate your children to be rich, educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they will know the value of things and not the price. Eat your food as your...
The Curetes were five brothers: Heracles (no relation to the famous hero and son of Zeus) Paeonaeus Epimedes Iasius Idas Legend has it that they were not born but sprang from the earth when it was wet by the first tears of the infant Zeus. This symbolises that...
When the brothers Thyestes and Atreus fought over which would get to rule Mycenae, following the death of the previous king, Eurystheus, Atreus suggested that whoever possessed of a splendid golden ram would be declared king. Unbeknownst to Atreus, his unfaithful wife Aerope had given...
AESOP 625-560 B.C. No author of Greek antiquity has been more read, translated, adapted, embellished, printed, and illustrated than Aesop. According to Herodotus (Histories, 2.134-135), Aesop was a slave who won his freedom by telling fables. Aesop is mentioned by Aristotle, Aristophanes, Athenaeus, Plato, Callimachus, Lucian, Philostratus,...
The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Moliere ALCESTE : I would have people be sincere, and that, like men of honour, no word be spoken that comes not from the heart. . PHILINTE : When a man comes and embraces you...
Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus, son of Theseus. The play was first produced for the City Dionysia of Athens in 428 BC and won first prize as part of a trilogy. The text is extant. The play...
In Greek antiquity, Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War, Hermione had been betrothed by Tyndareus, her grandfather, to her cousin Orestes, son of her uncle, Agamemnon. She was just nine years...
The intrusion of the economic motive into sex is always in a greater or lesser degree disastrous. Sexual relations should be a mutual delight, entered into solely from the spontaneous impulse of both parties. Where this is not the case, everything that is valuable is absent....
