Pascal:

see Chapter I, page 42

 

Freethinker:

term first used in the 17th century describing people who inquired into the basis of traditional religious beliefs; closely linked with secularism, atheism, agnosticism, anti-clericalism, and religious critique.  In England late 17th century it described those who stood in opposition to the institution of the Church & literal belief in the Bible. Freethinkers argued that people could understand the world through consideration of nature.  In 1697 (in a letter to John Locke)this position was first documented by William Molyneux.  It was developed by Anthony Collins in his popular Discourse of Free-thinking (1713), which attacked the clergy of all churches and it is a plea for deism.  In France in 1765 the Encyclopédie (of Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire) included the idea.  In 1859 German freethinkers established the Bund Freireligiöser Gemeinden Deutschlands (Union of Free Religious Communities of Germany), an association of persons who consider themselves to be religious without adhering to any established and institutionalized church or sacerdotal cult.

 

infinite relations:

mathematical term, a relation can refer to a function.  A function is a relation between sets that associates to every element of a first set exactly one element of the second set.  Relations with a finite number of places are called finite-place relations.  It is also possible to generalize the concept to include infinitary relations between infinitudes of numbers, as in the case of infinite sequences.

 

Goethe (his" Wahrheit und Dichtung "):

reference to Goethe’s autobiography; full title: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit (From my Life: Poetry and Truth; 1811–1833); covers the period from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he was about to leave for Weimar.

 

Plutarch (his biographies):

wrote a famous study, Parallel Lives (full title: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, often called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives), a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written early 2nd century AD.  Some 23 pairs of biographies have survived including that of Pericles & Alcibiades.  It is source of information about the individuals described & the times in which they lived.

and see above page 306

 

Alcibiades:

see Chapter I, page 4

 

Pericles:

see Chapter I, page 9

 

graphology:

the analysis of the physical characteristics & patterns of handwriting, which claims to be able to identify the writer, indicating the psychological state at the time of writing, or provide a general evaluation of personality characteristics.

 

Meander: * see EndNote<A>

decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif; aka the Greek fret or Greek key designs & are common decorative elements in Greek and Roman art.  They appear in many architectural friezes, and in bands on the pottery of ancient Greece from the Geometric Period onwards, in mosaic floors & on wall decorations.

 

Acanthus-shoot: *see EndNote<B>

In architecture, an ornament carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants.  In Ancient Roman & Greek architecture acanthus ornament appears extensively in the capitals of the Corinthian & Composite orders, and was applied to friezes, dentils and other decorated areas. The oldest example of a Corinthian column is in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius (Bassae in Arcadia) dating from  450–420 BC.  The order was used sparingly in Greece before the Roman period.  The Romans elaborated the order with the ends of the leaves curled.  It was their favourite order for grand buildings, with their own invention of the Composite, which was first seen in the epoch of Augustus.

 

fugue:

see Chapter II, page 61  

 

προσώπον:

ancient Greek, meaning person