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

Jan