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The murderers then came before the Theban assembly and boasted of their deed, urging the citizens of their town to join them by evoking that most cherished of Greek ideals: eleutheria—freedom.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The murderers then came before the Theban assembly and boasted of their deed, urging the citizens of their town to join them by evoking that most cherished of Greek ideals: eleutheria—freedom.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The murderers then came before the Theban assembly and boasted of their deed, urging the citizens of their town to join them by evoking that most cherished of Greek ideals: eleutheria—freedom.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Ultimately the film takes a moral stance, Herodotean in nature: there is a difference, an unapologetic difference between free citizens who fight for eleutheria and imperial subjects who give obeisance.
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Ultimately the film takes a moral stance, Herodotean in nature: there is a difference, an unapologetic difference between free citizens who fight for eleutheria and imperial subjects who give obeisance.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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But he was also clearly imbued with the spirit of freedom (eleutheria) so prominent as a leitmotif throughout his work, and seen by him as the answer to tyranny.
The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008
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Liberty — eleutheria (now used in the ab - stract) — came to indicate a collective Greek attitude to political life as opposed to Persian despotism.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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In democratic thinking freedom of speech appears to be one of the most important and necessary ingredients of eleutheria.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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In earlier times the notion of liberty (eleutheria) Page 259, Volume 2 did not include freedom of speech: indeed, another important notion of Greek archaic ethics, aidos
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968
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[513] Strabo l.c. [Greek: _eis de taen mesogaian anion haethroise dia tacheon plaethos aporon te anthropon kai doulon ep 'eleutheria katakeklaemenon, ous Haeliopolitas ekalese_].
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
 
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