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Hamblin & Peterson: Why was the New Testament written in Greek?

Edit Deseret News 15 Oct 2016
When Greek really came into its own with Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey” and the works of Hesiod a few centuries after Linear B, it served as the vehicle for a cultural contribution (e.g., the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes), history (for example, Herodotus, Thucydides and Josephus), science ......

Why Liam wanted the legal right to a dignified end

Edit Belfast Telegraph 15 Oct 2016
Liam Clarke was diagnosed with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, a rare form of stomach cancer, in March 2014. In June that year, he wrote this article in the Belfast Telegraph about living ‘in the moment’, how his Zen Buddhist beliefs helped him find beauty in the face of death ... and why he wanted the legal right to a dignified end. “The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last ... (Homer, The Iliad)....

The Twelve Apostles review: Tim Pat Coogan’s ballad to his heroes

Edit The Irish Times 15 Oct 2016
Coogan emphasises that it is essentially a reheat of portions of his hugely influential 1990 biography, Michael Collins ... Both are accessible online at militaryarchives.ie.) ... ... Yet despite this Hellenic tinge his most apposite poetic exemplar is not Homer, whose Iliad is peopled with flawed, truly human heroes, but John Keats, who concludes his meditation Ode on a Grecian Urn with “that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”....

Regulator awards 3G/4G spectrum in French overseas markets

Edit BN Americas 14 Oct 2016
French telco Iliad was granted spectrum in Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Reunion Island, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint-Barthelemy and Saint-Martin ...continue reading ... ....

The Grisly Side of Kathakali Dance

Edit New Yorker 14 Oct 2016
In the Iliad, Achilles, after killing Hector, attaches that noble man’s body to the back of his chariot and drags it through the dirt in front of Troy’s walls ... Apple’s Big Problem ... ....

CALENDRIER du 17 octobre au 23 octobre 2016 (European Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. European Commission). (Susceptible de modifications en cours de semaine). Déplacements et visites. Lundi 17 octobre. Environment Council, in Luxembourg. Foreign Affairs Council (until 18/10), in Luxembourg. President Jean-Claude Juncker receives Mr Ulisses Correia e Silva, Prime Minister of Cabo Verde ... Mr Andrus Ansip receives Mr Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad ... Mr Günther Oettinger receives Mr Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad ... Mardi 18 octobre ... M....

CALENDRIER du 17 octobre au 23 octobre 2016 (European Union)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. European Union). (Susceptible de modifications en cours de semaine). Déplacements et visites. Lundi 17 octobre. Environment Council, in Luxembourg. Foreign Affairs Council (until 18/10), in Luxembourg. President Jean-Claude Juncker receives Mr Ulisses Correia e Silva, Prime Minister of Cabo Verde ... Mr Andrus Ansip receives Mr Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad ... Mr Günther Oettinger receives Mr Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad ... Mardi 18 octobre ... M....

'Great poet' Bob Dylan surprise winner of Nobel Prize in Literature

Edit Belfast Telegraph 13 Oct 2016
American singer Bob Dylan has been hailed as "a great poet in the English-speaking tradition" following his surprise win of the Nobel Prize in Literature ... Independent.ie ... Go To ... Asked about broadening the horizons of the prize, given that Dylan has not written novels in the "usual sense", Danius said Dylan's works were comparable to those of the ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho and Homer, author of The Iliad and Odyssey ... ....

How Do We “Package” Peace? Can We Make It Palatable?

Edit Dissident Voice 07 Oct 2016
But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?”. — The Book of Job. … with the finding of the language the feelings begin to change again. — Phyllis Rose. Part One ... S ... Ambassador ... Regrettably, I do not have such a sanguine feeling about the 2nd play, Vithal Rajan’s 25-page 1-Act, “The Spartan Conspiracy.” The work begins with a 2-page preface about similarities between Homer’s “Iliad” and the Hindu “Ramayana” epic....

High life

Edit The Spectator 06 Oct 2016
New York. Back in the Big Bagel once again preparing for the greatest debate ever, one that will decide the fate of the western world once and for all. In the meantime, the mother of my children is doing all the heavy lifting back in Gstaad, moving to my last address ever, that of my new farm, La Renarde ... My, my, how easy it has become to get that goat ... Would the Iliad exist if Paris had run off with a son of Menelaus? ... ....

Statement on share capital and voting rights (fr) (Iliad SA)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Oct 2016
(Source. Iliad SA) ... FR0004035913 ... Ce document est accessible en PDF sur le site de la Société, dans la rubrique Information Réglementée www.iliad.fr. Iliad SA published this content on 04 October 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Vivendi’s CanalSat, Telco Free Strike Carriage Deal, as France’s Canal Plus Targets Mass Viewers

Edit Variety 03 Oct 2016
Vivendi’s CanalSat, the multi-channel satellite-IPTV service of pay TV operator Canal Plus, has struck a game-changing deal with French telco Free, owned by Iliad, which adds a massive three million subscribers to CanalSat’s client base. The deal also implies a redefinition of Canal Plus, Europe’s second biggest pay TV operator. For the first 30 years... Read more » ... ....

My Historical Novel Is Coming Soon!

Edit Medium 01 Oct 2016
1. The Sasanians could trace their cultural ancestry all the way back to the primordial mists of recorded history,To the dawn of civilization itself ... A whirlwind journey into the furthest depths of ancient historymedium.com ... The oldest works of poetry and sculpture in their treasure-houses were as ancient, for them, as the Iliad and the Odyssey, or the Old Testament, are for us today ... Instead, Persia captures her conquerors ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... ....
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