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Subject: Re: Word of the day: "ithyphallic"
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:49:46 +0100
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:49:11 +0200
nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) wrote:

> occam <occam@nowhere.nix> wrote:
> 
> > On 19/09/2024 06:59, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> > > Another one that stuck for me was "metic", "resident foreigner in a
> > > Greek city state," apparently not related to meticulous.
> > 
> > Try 'hermetic' as a related concept. A 'foreigner' in ancient Greek was
> > someone from another city state, even if that was a city in Greece.
> > 'Greece' did not become an entity until much later.
> 
> Depends on what you want 'entity' to mean.
> Those ancient Greeks certainly saw themselves as a cultural entity,
> with a shared language and culture. This extended to 'Greater Greece'.
> It was only the narrow sense of a political entity that was
> inconceivable to them,


In his travels (read killing spree) Alexander encountered some lost Greek
settlement; unfortunately for them they hadn't kept up *all* the right
procedures to appease the gods, so he had to slaughter them as well.


-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.