CLASSIC R44 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ataraxia, Pietas, Epicureanism
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Strangers / guests => xenia (traditional guest-host relationship in greek) Limits / civilization => rules / laws (nomos) Pietas: obligations to family / community / gods (the case here) Book 5: after the war with gauls. A term only referring to early christians. Pliny"s letters can be mentioned as the legal perspective on the christians. Pleasure (in epicurean sense, it is absence from pain) Greek word for law / tradition / custom. Herodotus bk. 3, cambysis conquers egypt, becomes crazy. (disrespect for custom) Writing system of sumerian, babylonian, and mesopotamian civilizations. Aristotle: saying that plato"s form of good. State of city living a simple life. Cave men dates: no doctors, die directly. Anyone who is a descendant of jacob. North: israel; south: the tribe of judah (where jerusalem is). The study of the four gospels (mathew, mark and luke, not john) Present jesus as a wise man, healer, in the rst three gospels.
