Friday, June 23, 2017
Epimenides paradox
Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) was a semi-mythical 7th or 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Pheidippides
Painting of Pheidippides as he gave word of the
Greek victory over Persia at
the Battle of Marathon to the people of Athens.Luc-Olivier
Merson, 1869
Pheidippides is the central figure in a story that was the inspiration for a modern sporting event, the marathon race. Pheidippides is said to have run from Marathon to Athens to deliver news of a military victory against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530 BC–490 BC), an Athenian herald or hemerodrome (translated as "day-runner""courier" "professional-running courier" or "day-long runner, was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece. He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days. He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) from the battlefield near Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word nikomen "We win!", as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ("hail, we are the winners")and then collapsed and died.
Pheidippides
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Sisyphus punishment
Persephone supervising
Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attica black-figure amphora (vase),
530 BC
Sisyphus
Monday, June 19, 2017
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