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The ancient Greek gods remain a fascination around the world. As immortals with unusual powers, they appear in movies, books, video games, podcasts and countless academic studies.
By Patrick Garner
” width=”1080″>These Greek gods are often called the “Olympic gods” because some were said to live on Mt. Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, towering over the Gulf of Thermaïkós.
As captivating as they are, individual Greek gods remain a hodgepodge to many. There are fully twelve Olympians and other divinities as well. How many of us could name even half of them?
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Stoa of Attalus night view, Greece.
A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism
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Stoicism, in Ancient Greece, was pop culture reaching out in a way that the sophisticated Platonic and Aristotelian schools could only dream of. Like the Epicureans and the Skeptics, the Stoics owed a lot to Socrates who always stressed that
philosophy had to be practical, capable of changing our priorities in life.
The Stoics were very big on ataraxia (freedom of disturbance) as the ideal state of our mind. The wise man cannot possibly be troubled because
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