Your Greek Word On A Sunday

Episode 262: Crocodile

July 21, 2024 10:00 - 55 seconds - 717 KB

(Intro & piano music) Sometimes, Greeks seem to have many words for the same thing but to their defence, they had many years of thinking, inventing and applying words to very specific things. So although we've already found the word for 'pebble' in a previous episode, today, we're using another one Κρόκη (Kroke); And combined with the word for 'Lizard' Δίλος (Delos) It gives us the word, the ancient Greeks used for the animal found in the river Nile. As language evolved, the spelling in mod...

Episode 261: Chalk

July 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 976 KB

(Intro & piano music) Most English words have arrived here either via Latin or Germanic ones. And because it was easier geographically, the ones that originated in Greece are the Latin based ones. But there are some exceptions and today we have one of them. A small pebble in ancient Greece was called Κάλυξ (Calix) and in Latin it was called 'Calx' . However, the word did not go to the French and then English as usual but it rerouted to Germany where they used it for 'limestone'. So, when th...

Episode 260: Acrobat

July 07, 2024 10:00 - 54 seconds - 709 KB

(Intro & piano music) This word came to English in 1845 from the French that gave it the specific meaning we use today but: Ακρη (akri) in both ancient and modern Greek, means 'the edge' of a place, regardless if it's a mountain or a sidewalk and Βαίνειν (venin) is the ancient Greek infinitive for 'walking/Going' so, the one who walks on the edge of any place not just a high one and not only a rope, is an ΑΚΡΟΒΑΤΗΣ/ACROBAT Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email yo...

Episode 259: Ecstasy

June 30, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.16 MB

Before we begin, I have a little announcement ,the podcast has finally made it to Instagram. It has now its own separate account than my acting one and it has everything , including videos with additional information and fun facts. So, go ahead, give us a follow @yourgreeksunday and I'll see you there! (Intro & piano music) Today's word is also linked to Dionysus as it's supposed to be one of the states his followers found themselves in, but it has a history of its own. Εκ (ek) in ancien...

Episode 258: Panorama

June 23, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 888 KB

(Intro & piano music) Until I started this podcast, I didn't realise how many English speaking people named things by combining Greek words; either because they thought it would make them look smarter or because the words they chose, were the perfect description for their invention (and sounded smart).In 1787 the painter and inventor Robert Barker, created a 360 degree visual medium, patented under the title 'Apparatus for exhibiting Pictures'. The viewer would stand on a platform in the mi...

Episode 257: Clerk

June 16, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.05 MB

(Intro and piano music) This is an English word based on an ancient Greek one that quickly changed meanings, started going on circles creating more words and making it-I'll be kind- fun to research. Κλήρος (Kleros) in ancient Greek meant 'Lot', 'piece of land' and subsequently 'inheritance', so far so good. A few hundred years go by and in the 5th book of the bible, people working as temple assistants were called Κληρικοί (Kleriki) because, and I quote '...therefore shall they have no inhe...

Episode 256: Platypus

June 09, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.04 MB

(Intro & Piano music) The internet reads for this creature; a duck billed, beaver tailed, otter footed, egg laying, aquatic creature native to Australia. Then, what is it doing bearing a Greek name? Before the Natural History Museum in London became the great institution it is today, it was part of the British Museum and its keeper, George Shaw, was the first to describe and accept this creature as a real animal, in 1799. He named it based on the look of its feet but that name was already t...

Episode 255: Mania

June 02, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 855 KB

(Intro & piano music) From Greek Mythology to Euripides's Greek Drama 'The Bacchae' to Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' , those Nymphs were responsible for drinking, dancing, eating raw meat, being strong enough to pull trees from the ground with, just, their hands and killing anyone who'd refuse their mating call. They followed and worshiped Dionysus from Greece to India and back and they were in the hundreds! Their name Μαινάδες (Maenads) means 'obsessively passion...

Episode 254: Energy

May 26, 2024 10:00 - 56 seconds - 725 KB

(Intro & piano music) Εν (en) in Greek is a preposition meaning 'with' 'within' . Εργο (ergo) means 'action'. The translation into Latin show some bumps along the way caused by many back and forths because of a misunderstanding on one of Aristotle's works. He used the combined word, meaning 'at work' as 'powering up' so although in modern Greek the adjective 'ενεργός' (energos) means 'active', 'at work', the noun has two meanings 'action' and ΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΑ/ENERGY Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Ins...

Episode: 253: Analogy

May 19, 2024 10:00 - 48 seconds - 634 KB

(Intro & piano music) Greek Mathematicians were the first to use this word until Plato came along and used it to describe different realities and bigger ideas. Ανά (ana) is a preposition meaning -among other things- 'upon'. Λόγος (logos) means 'speech', 'thought', 'reason' and 'ratio' . The combined word means 'according to ratio' and is used for literal or metaphorical proportions. ΑΝΑΛΟΓΙΑ/ANALOGY Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 252: Heresy

May 12, 2024 10:00 - 2 minutes - 1.48 MB

(Intro & piano music) Plato wrote 'Our salvation depends on the correct choice between pleasure and sadness, that is the choice between more, or less.' The ancient Greek verb Αιρώ (aero) has been completely claimed by Christianity and turned on its head with regards to the original meaning and perception of the word. In 380 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius the 1st , legally tied the word to anyone not Christian (at the time the division between the Catholic and the Orthodox church didn't ex...

Episode 251: Charisma

May 05, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.12 MB

(Intro & piano music) In ancient Greek mythology there are three women (sometimes more) , daughters of Zeus (sometimes of the Sun or of Dionysus) that are responsible for organising all the feasts in Mount Olympus and making sure that everything is beautiful, joyous, healthy and sexy. No, they're not the Muses although, they were all good friends. They are Aphrodite's followers and they are The Graces! Χάριτες (Charites) in Greek. Their names Αγλαϊα (Aglaea-Radiance), Ευφροσύνη(Evfrosini-Jo...

Episode 250: Idiosyncrasy

April 28, 2024 09:00 - 1 minute - 858 KB

(Intro & piano music) I have a three combo word for you today, yup, that's as Greek as it gets! And it seems to have been distorted a little in English in order to single out personality traits but: Ιδιος (idios) in ancient Greek meant 'one's own', we could say 'one's self' but... mmm... ok let's go with that! Συν (sin) means 'with' and κράση (krasi) means 'a mixture' . So the combination of all the things that make someone themselves. From your personality, to your mannerisms, to the way y...

Episode 249: Stereotype

April 21, 2024 09:00 - 56 seconds - 718 KB

(intro & piano music) Τύπτω (tipto) in ancient Greek means 'I strike', 'hit' or 'dent' something. In Latin it was 'typus' and meant 'symbol' or 'an emblem'. Around 1713 it moved to meaning 'printed on metal or wood'. Στερεό (stereo) means 'solid' and the combined word in 1804 meant a printing plate, an additional meaning in 1819 was 'to fix something firmly' and lastly in 1953 the word got the meaning we still use today ΣΤΕΡΕΟΤΥΠΟ/ STEREOTYPE Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgre...

Episode 248: Pseudonym

April 14, 2024 09:00 - 1 minute - 948 KB

(Intro & piano music) My first job, shortly after I arrived in England, was a stage adaptation of 'Middlemarch', an epic story by George Eliot. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans. As time went by ,I realised that the name I was known for in Greece and had been working for years was too difficult for anyone in this industry to remember so, I decided to keep my first name but officially shorten my surname. In fact if you go to my IMDb you'll see three different versions of my name all of which ar...

Episode 247: Labyrinth

April 07, 2024 09:00 - 1 minute - 880 KB

(Intro & piano music) The history of this word goes back to those considered to be the first European civilisation. There is truth and there is myth connected to the Minoans. A name we know was given to them by the Greeks but have no evidence that, that's what they called themselves. Archaeological discoveries place them in Crete and their first ruler, according to the Greeks, was King Minos (his story and myth are for another episode). The symbol mostly found in the unearthing of this an...

Episode 246: Symmetry

March 31, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 834 KB

(Intro & piano music) In 3rd century BC there was a biographer of philosophers and author of the history of philosophy, Διογένης Λαέρτιος( Diogenes Laertios) . In his 7th book (out of 10) he begins with a reference to Pythagoras's beliefs on how one should lead their life, one of them being , and I quote: Drunkenness, he considers to be a damage and he disapproves any kind of exaggeration, he says we should have συμμετρία and not overdo it with drinking and eating. Συν (syn), among other t...

Episode 245:Tactic

March 24, 2024 10:00 - 52 seconds - 669 KB

(Intro & piano music) Τάσσω (tasso) in an Ancient Greek verb and it means 'I put things in order' . Something that was studied in Ancient Greece was the technique of how to put things in order, how to strategize and make smart decisions to achieve your goal (I know I'm summarising here but this is a bite-size podcast after all) . That technique was called Τακτική τέχνη (taktiki techne) and the word came to English in the 17th century , quite late if you think about how many successful strat...

Episode 244: Cream

March 17, 2024 11:00 - 44 seconds - 584 KB

(Intro & piano music) This sweet word is a combination of Ancient Greek and late Latin. It came into English in the 14th century from the French (of course) who took both both languages, applied the term to baking and quite possibly perfected the flavour. Χρίσμα (chrisma) in Greek means 'unguent' The Latin called it 'cramum' and the French 'crème'. ΧΡΙΣΜΑ/CREAM Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 243: Autocracy

March 10, 2024 11:00 - 1 minute - 850 KB

(Intro & piano music) Today's word has a small journey as it's very straight forward. It has also been reduced to a single meaning in Greek. Αυτό (auto) is short for Εαυτό and it means 'self' . Κράτος (kratos) means 'state' . In Ancient Greece and Rome, the combined word meant , any system of government that was absolute and it included Monarchy, dictatorship and a whole empire. The word came to English through the usual route, Latin and old French and what I find interesting is which politi...

Episode 242:Meander

March 03, 2024 11:00 - 1 minute - 970 KB

(Intro & piano music) There are two versions of this myth and I chose the one places ancient Turkey and Ancient Greece geologically closer than they are today. The Greek God Ασωπός (Asopos), son of Poseidon, gave his name to a river that ran through central Greece and sprang from another river in Asia Minor. The river Μαίανδρος (Meandros). That river had so many twists and turns that its name is used to describe a very winding flow or way of travel. In modern Greek, the word is used describ...

Episode 241: Hectic

February 25, 2024 10:00 - 53 seconds - 685 KB

(Intro & piano music) This word came to us from medicine and the metaphorical meaning is what we use today. Χεκτικός (Hektikos), in ancient Greek meant 'continuous'. It was linked to fevers and was a monitoring sign for certain diseases. In English it was used specifically for fever that not only wouldn't stop but go up and down during the course of a day, exhausting the patient. The word came from late Latin 'Hecticus' and nowadays describes a continuously , fast-paced life. ΧΕΚΤΙΚΟΣ/HECTI...

Episode 240: Sardonic

February 18, 2024 10:00 - 58 seconds - 742 KB

(Intro & piano music) Oenanthe Crocata, is a flower with a very sweet taste that grows near lakes in Sardinia. It's also known as 'Sardonion'. Eating it, will cause a state of drunkenness accompanied by laughter, paralyse your jaw, make your face muscles contract as if you're smiling and eventually, kill you. In Greek, it's called 'wine flower' because of its sweetness. Homer used its effects metaphorically to describe Odysseus's laughter and that's how it came to us today. A laughter or a...

Episode 239: Date

February 11, 2024 10:00 - 51 seconds - 660 KB

(Intro & piano music) Today's word is so much older than the Valentine celebration and I have to admit I thought it would make a good joke. Δάκτυλος (Daktilos) in ancient Greek and Δάχτυλο (Dahtilo) in modern means, 'finger'. There's a plant that started, probably, in Mesopotamia in 4000BC that both its leaves and fruit resemble a human finger and that's how it got its name. 'Dactylus' in Latin, 'Datil' in old French and from the 1300 onwards in England ΔΑΧΤΥΛΟ/DATE Twitter @yourgreeksund...

Episode 238: Fame

February 04, 2024 10:00 - 55 seconds - 705 KB

(Intro & piano music) Φήμη (feme) was one of Gaia's daughters and sister to Hope, among others. She was responsible for spreading the news of both Godly and Human achievements but if you fell short on her liking then, you could expect all kinds of gossip linked to your name. The Greeks had a temple dedicated to her in the ancient agora in Athens, next to the temple of Pudency. She's usually depicted holding a laurel and a trumpet. In Roman mythology she's called Fama and that's how the word...

Episode 237: Policy

January 28, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 814 KB

Intro & soft piano music Πόλις (polis) in both ancient and modern Greek means the 'City' . This is a root word for many more that we'll have a chance to explore in the future. Plato wrote Πολιτεία (politia) around 380BC which was a fictional discussion between the philosophers of the time on what a Just society is, the educational system, the debate between Philosophy and Poetry and many more. It was split in ten books based on subject. The Latin translation is Res Rublica which means, 'the...

Episode 236: Synthesis

January 21, 2024 10:00 - 33 seconds - 448 KB

Intro & soft piano music Συν (syn) is a preposition meaning 'and', 'together'. Θέση (thesi) means 'position' Combining things either naturally or artificially is called ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗ Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 235: Center

January 14, 2024 10:00 - 40 seconds - 530 KB

Intro & soft piano music Κεντρί (kendri) in both ancient and modern Greek means the 'Sting' . Because the point of a compass was as sharp and pointy, the mathematician Euclid, named the mark left when drafting a circle, after it. The word came to English from Latin in the late 1400 and kept that spelling. ΚΕΝΤΡΟ/CENTER. Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 234: Night

January 07, 2024 10:00 - 1 minute - 1.13 MB

(Intro & soft piano music) Happy New Year everyone! May you be happy, prosper and shine in whatever you decide to do this year! We begin 2024 with a Myth. We've touched upon this lineage before but today, we're going to where everything started. So, in the beginning, there was Chaos and they gave birth to Νυξ (Nyx). She was fierce and frightful and all powerful. Among her many children were Day, Dream, Death, Nemesis and Uranus (the sky) who, along with Gaia (the Earth) created the World. N...

Episode 233: Pause

December 24, 2023 10:00 - 39 seconds - 526 KB

(Intro & piano music) Merry Christmas to those celebrating and , have a well deserved rest those of you who don't! Today's word is the last one of the year and I thought of bringing you one that came all the way from Ancient Greece with only a slight modification due to the different alphabet and, a meaning worth of a day like this, ΠΑΥΣΗ/PAUSE Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 232: Orchestra

December 17, 2023 11:00 - 1 minute - 988 KB

(Intro & piano music) The Ancient Greek Theatre has many parts and each of them has their specific function within Greek Drama. I won't talk about all of them but , in the centre was Θυμέλη (thimeli), the altar of Dionysus since theatre was part of the festivals celebrating him. Πάροδοι (parodae), on the sides the entrances and exits. Σκηνή (scene) the Stage at the forefront and raised. Προσκήνιο (proscenium) ,the painted pillars in front of the stage that formed the set and behind it, was...

Episode 231: Catechism

December 10, 2023 11:00 - 56 seconds - 718 KB

(Intro & piano music) In every language, I suspect, there are words that have lost their original meaning because they've become closely associated with or solely used for, one purpose. Today's word is a very good example! Κατά (kata) is a preposition and among other things, it means 'according to'. Ηχος (echos) means 'Sound'. The combined word means 'according to what you hear' and it was used for any kind of verbal teaching or information spread by word of mouth. It arrived in English ear...

Episode 230: Symbol

December 03, 2023 11:00 - 57 seconds - 728 KB

(intro & piano music) There are some words whose history of meaning surprises me because it's not based on reason or practicality but, sentiment. Συν (syn) means 'with', Βάλλειν (vallin) is the ancient greek infinitive for 'throw'. The combined word arrived in English in the 15th century and meant the result of two individual things thrown together so they can form a whole. That match, was a sign for their owners to recognise eachother without speaking. A secret acknowledgment. The complete...

Episode 229: Emphasis

November 26, 2023 11:00 - 1 minute - 854 KB

(Intro & piano music) I love it when I get the chance to prove how tricky Greek language can be. Only because it's a challenge to describe. At then end of last month I talked about the same infinitive φαίνειν (phenin) meaning 'to show', to create the word 'Phantom'. Here, it's being used again, but after the preposition Εν (en) which becomes 'em' when combined and it means 'within' , 'from the inside' So, making something visible from the inside. Projecting. In rhetoric 'applying significa...

Episode 228: Irony

November 19, 2023 11:00 - 58 seconds - 739 KB

(Intro & piano music) The origins of all three meanings of this word, can be found in Aristotle, Plato and Socrates. But an Ancient Greek comedy character called Είρων (Eron/Iron) who would pretend to not understand what was happening, only to expose the boastful, started appearing more and more until his name was given to his actions. In literature those actions are divided in, Verbal: where you pretend you don't understand what's been said to you, and mock it. Dramatic: where everyone un...

Episode 227: Dialect

November 12, 2023 00:00 - 40 seconds - 538 KB

(Intro & piano music) Δια (dia) means 'between', 'across' and it's also the name of the mathematical symbol for division. One of the meanings of the word Λόγος (logos) is, 'speech'. When a new form of speech is created within a language because of a region, a social group or a cultural one then, that form of speech is called a ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΟΣ/DIALECT Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 226: Metaphor

November 05, 2023 11:00 - 44 seconds - 580 KB

(Intro & piano music) We're doing all things language this November! Φέρω (fero) is an ancient Greek verb meaning 'to carry', 'to bring'. Μετά (meta) is both a preposition and an adjective, meaning 'after', 'forward'. The combined word means a 'transition'. It's a figure of speech that explains one thing by using another. To carry a meaning over is a ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΑ/METAPHOR Twitter @yourgreeksunday , Instagram @yourgreeksunday , email [email protected]

Episode 225: Tomb

October 29, 2023 10:00 - 53 seconds - 683 KB

(Intro & piano music) Happy Halloween everyone! This word has an interesting history and several origin theories. The Ancient Greek word Τύμβος (Timvos) , meant either the grave, the small hip of soil on top of a grave or the smoke coming up after the burning of the dead, You can also find the root in Armenian, Sanskrit and Old Welsh. But when the word came to Latin, it got shortened, kept the basic function and left the theories to the linguists and historians. ΤΥΜΒΟΣ/TOMB Twitter @yourg...

Episode 224: Phantom

October 22, 2023 10:00 - 51 seconds - 661 KB

(Intro & piano music) Approaching Halloween so, let the spooky words in! Φαίνειν is an ancient Greek infinitive and it means 'to appear/ to make something visible'. The thing that is been made visible is a Φάντασμα and it used to mean 'an illusion' before it meant 'an apparition'. The root of this word can be found in old Armenian, old Irish and of course Sanskrit but the Greek one is the one that came through. Latin 'Fantasma', French 'Fantome' and eventually the English in the 1300's. Φ...

Episode 223: Hypothesis

October 15, 2023 10:00 - 57 seconds - 733 KB

(Intro & piano music) There are some Greek words that the original meaning has been almost lost except for the occasional one that is used for this one specific thing and of course, it's only in Greek. So, υπό is a preposition meaning 'under' . Θέση means 'position'. The combined word originally meant 'placing something under' but in philosophy and , later, science, the word came to mean 'supposition' . Since that wider use in the 1600's, the world only knows that one meaning (for our Gree...

Episode 222: Encyclopaedia

October 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 minute - 988 KB

(Intro & piano music) If you see and Ancient Greek text, you'll understand it's difficult to know when a word ends and another begins. Today's word is a combined one, not by choice but by accident of someone who wasn't sure how to read it. Εν means in, κύκλος is circle and παιδεία is education. The Ancient Greeks had circles of education subjects. The Arts, Sciences etc. When you've completed one, you had an εγκυκλος παιδεία, a circled education on that subject. With time, the meaning wide...

Episode 221: Base

October 01, 2023 10:00 - 1 minute - 962 KB

Hello and welcome to our seventh season! Can you believe it?! Seventh! Well, it's thanks to you we're still here. Subscribing, downloading and sharing our podcast far and wide has seen our audience grow and expand all over the globe. Stay tuned this year, as we have some surprises for you and don't forget to email us with questions or comments at [email protected]. You can also follow us on X at yourgreeksunday and, on Instagram at EmmanuelaLia. Let the season commence! Intro & Pia...

Episode 220: Ocean

July 02, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 1.03 MB

This is the last episode for this season and I'd like to thank you for staying with us for another year! If you have questions, ideas or comments about what you hear in this podcast, feel free to reach out on our Twitter @yourgreeksunday , our email [email protected] or leave a review in the listening platform of your choice. See you in the Autumn everyone! On with our myth! Oh yes, it's a myth! (Intro & piano music) When the Earth and the Sky, or in Greek mythology Gaia and Uranu...

Episode 219: Sand

June 25, 2023 09:00 - 56 seconds - 719 KB

(Intro & piano music) Ψάω (psao) the verb for 'grinding' and 'smoothing' , and ψάμμος (psammos) the noun, is an ancient greek word that took two different journeys but kept its meaning. After coming to Latin, and among other alterations, it lost the pronunciation of the 'P' in the beginning and became 'Sabulum' ,which is the root for the Italian 'sabbia' and the French 'sable'. Now, this time the word came to English from the Germans that altered it further and shared the variations with th...

Episode 218: Thermos

June 18, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 817 KB

(Intro & piano music) We are counting down to the end of this season and as summer seems to be already here, our last three words are dedicated to it. In 1892, James Dewar, a Scottish scientist working in Cambridge, invented an insulated vessel for liquified gasses. What he didn't do is secure the patent for it. 11 years later, in 1903, the German glass blower Reinhold Burger, received the German patent for a vacuum flask to be used as a household item and, created the company that mass man...

Episode 217: Calligraphy

June 11, 2023 09:00 - 49 seconds - 634 KB

(Intro & piano music) Κάλλος (kallos) in ancient Greek, and in some cases in modern too, meant 'beauty'. Γραφή (graphe) is the act of writing. The combined word referred to an artform that started in Egypt and spread around the world. . In English it came through Latin (with a changed spelling as Greeks don't have the letter 'c') in the early 1600's. In modern Greek the word has the additional meaning of,' just a beautiful hand writing'. ΚΑΛΛΙΓΡΑΦΙΑ/CALLIGRAPHY Twitter @yourgreeksunday ,...

Episode 216: Paradox

June 04, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 832 KB

(Intro & piano music) Παρά (para) in both ancient and modern Greek is a preposition and it means 'on the side' or 'across' Δόξα (doxa) in ancient Greek meant 'belief' or 'opinion'. The combined word in philosophy meant,' the opposite of logic that might entail some truth, difficult for the average mind to grasp' . In literature it was the collection of unexplained events or personal anecdotes and in science, anything that is still unexplained but is being researched (for example, in the old...

Episode 215: Bible

May 28, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 784 KB

Before we begin, just a little reminder that you can send your comments and questions to [email protected], follow us in Twitter @yourgreeksunday, and myself on instagram at emmanuela_lia On with today's word! (Intro & piano music) Βιβλίο (vivlio) in Greek means 'Book', the letter 'B' is pronounced 'V' . As early as the 14th century, christian orthodox scriptures were referred to as Τα άγια βιβλία (ta agia vivlia)/The holy books. The word came to Latin in full-form but then the l...

Episode 214: Ostracized

May 21, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 1.06 MB

(Intro & piano music) Staying in ancient Greece but in more earthly matters today. This is a word that lasted all this time although the custom died within a century. In 500 BC in order to secure the safety of Democracy from politically influential citizens or corrupt politicians, a vote was established. Every year and with a two month notice (to avoid irrational action) 6.000 citizens had to vote by writing the name of the person they thought was endangering Democracy on a piece of shell ...

Episode 213: Theme

May 14, 2023 09:00 - 1 minute - 979 KB

(Intro & piano music) Τίθημι (tithimi) is an ancient greek verb meaning 'I put in the right place, I position correctly'. Among the Titans that survived the ancient war against the Olympian gods, was Themis. The goddess we all know holding a scale and a sword and has a blindfold. The goddess of justice. She sets the laws and although many think that she can't see, that's not why she has a blindfold. Themis was an oracle herself so the blindfold is there to remind us that she can see, regar...

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