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Ariadne and Dionysus – A Love Story in Naxos

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While you comfortably lay on the beach and sip your coffee, well, try to imagine that, many years ago, a myth was born in Naxos! Do you remember that mythical minotaur that was locked up by King Minos in the labyrinth of Knossos, on the island of Crete? That labyrinth was built by Daedalus and…

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Happiness in Ancient Greece

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Posted in Lesson One: Philosophy, Once upon a time On

For the ancient Greeks happiness had several meanings intended as good luck and linked to verbs such as to reach, to achieve, to distribute, to succeed. Happiness was the goal of life, a life lived according to ethics and morality. Let us go through the thoughts of some of the most important philosophers of the…

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