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Hippolytus despises debauchery and Aphrodite punishes him

Hippolytus is an Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides, based on the myth of Hippolytus,  son of Theseus. The play was first produced for...

06 January, 2024

Someday we will deliver justice with a star or a flower like a song that as it rains takes the poor men’s side

But at nights  (Tassos Leivaditis) And look, we got here without luggage but with such a beautiful moon And I dreamed of a better world Poor...

03 January, 2024

Hermione – The beautiful daughter of Menelaus and Helen of Troy and the sad game of succession

In Greek antiquity, Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus, king of Sparta, and his wife, Helen of Troy. Prior to the Trojan War,...

16 December, 2023

And dreams shall take revenge (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

Many years after Sin which they called Virtue in the churches and which they blessed. The tempest that man's mind shall give birth...

13 December, 2023

Prostitution. The intrusion of the economic motive into sex BERTRAND RUSSELL, 1929

The intrusion of the economic motive into sex is always in a greater or lesser degree disastrous. Sexual relations should be a mutual delight,...

27 November, 2023

I thank all those PAULO COELHO

I thank all those who laughed at my dreams; You have inspired my imagination. I thank all who wanted to squeeze me into their scheme; They...

23 November, 2023

Those who have never known the happiness of the mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give BERTRAND RUSSELL

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most...

21 November, 2023

Euclid’s response to King Ptolemy I when the latter asked him to find an easier way to learn geometry

The Greek philosopher Proclus wrote of the fascination that Ptolemy I, Egypt's pharaoh in 300 B.C., had with geometry. He invited Euclid, the...

20 November, 2023

But the farmer needs to be a realist …

A farmer’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries; The donkey is...

15 November, 2023

The Curse of the House of Atreus – King Pelops , the grandfather of Agamemnon and Menelaus

Pelops' father was Tantalus, king at Mount Sipylus in Anatolia. Wanting to test the Olympians, Tantalus cut Pelops into pieces and made his...

29 October, 2023