Greek city-states
196Greek Life
17 Jun 2024
17:53¶ 51
“When I was in 6th grade I was told there were five things that united the Greek city-states: common language, common ancestor (Helos), common…”
18:20¶ 52
“Next is common shrines, the Oracle at Delphi. It would be interesting to find out how that one started. It is a fascinating phenomenon…”
18:39¶ 53
“Then eventually participation in the Olympic games. These are all things that drew them together – common ancestor, common descent, and similar patriarchal-oriented religions,…”
85A Mother in Israel (Part 1)
27 Sep 2021
36:42¶ 123
“And besides, they taught us to think like naturalists and rationalists, so obviously that’s the road to freedom.” Maybe eventually someday in this series…”
37:12¶ 124
“Men were political animals, beasts, made human only by the fact that they belonged to that political magical order. Any kind of straying from…”
36:19¶ 122
“We can look at Greece and say, “Well, okay, so they kicked out Persians who maybe should or should not have been there.” Of…”
16Of One Blood
19 Apr 2020
24:39¶ 62
“Barbarians. We can look at ancient Greece, where we have exactly the same sort of thing. Every city-state was a world unto itself, and…”
25:16¶ 63
“The only way that the Greek city-states could ever work together – since each polis was dedicated to the worship of a particular dead…”
25:28¶ 64
“These city-states were rooted in religion. They were religious to the core. Everything about them was religious, despite what the secular textbooks tell us,…”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
17:45¶ 55
“So these cultures were inevitably Statist, all the way down to our precious Greeks, whose city-states, whose poleis, were all built around the worship…”
18:07¶ 56
“When Aristotle said, “Man is a political animal,” what he was saying is man is an animal who lives in polis. Man is defined…”
18:28¶ 57
“The Greek city-states, having various ancestors, didn’t get along very well. The textbooks tell us to look back to this time of Greek hegemony…”