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προσώπον:

Greek word, meaning expression, look, countenance

see page 316 above

 

άπρόσωπος:

Greek word, meaning impersonal

 

άσώματος:

Greek, meaning incorporeal, insubstantial, immaterial

 

persona regis:

Latin, meaning person of the king

 

imperatoris:

Latin, meaning emperor

 

σωφροσύνη:

Greek, meaning temperance in relations, wisdom

 

καλοκάγαθία:

Greek, meaning magnanimity

 

άταραξία:

Greek, meaning disturbance

 

ζώον  πολικον:

Greek phrase, meaning living politician, lifted from Aristotle’s Politics 1.2 where he argues that human beings are NOT naturally self-sufficient and therefore need the counsel of a political community

 

plurality:

the state of being numerous, a large number or quantity

 

agora:

literally "gathering place" or "assembly”; the central public space in ancient Greek city-states, the best representation of the polis response to accommodate the social & political orders, the centre of the athletic, artistic, spiritual & political life in the city; the agora of Athens is the best-known example.

 

forum:

Latin meaning public place outdoors; a public square in a Roman municipium or any civitas, the centre of judicial and public business reserved primarily for the vending of goods (a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops & the stoas used for open stalls.

 

σώματα πόλεως:

Greek, the collective or the whole mass of a city, or whole country or community

 

Attic:

aka Attica; historical region that encompasses the polis Athens; a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, with Boeotia to the north & Megaris to the west. Its history is linked with Athens, specifically the Golden Age of Athens in the classical period.  Ancient Attica, the Athens city-state, was divided into 3 zones: urban, Piraeus & coast, and the interior.

 

Seneca:

chapter I, page 33

 

Paestum:

major ancient Greek city on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in Magna Graecia (southern Italy), famous for 3 temples in the Doric order.  The oldest is the temple of Hera (550 BC) built by Greek colonists.  The 2nd Temple of Hera(built 460–450 BC) was near the first; its columns had 24 flutes rather than the typical 20 flutes; they were also wider in size with smaller intervals between columns.  The temple was used to worship Zeus & another deity (identity unknown).  The Temple of Athena (built 500 BC) sits at the highest point in town, away from the Hera Temples north of the centre of the ancient settlement. Its architecture is transitional, partly in the Ionic style, partly early Doric.

Decline of the West, Chapter IX: Soul-Image  & Life-Feeling. (I) On The Form Of The Soul 
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