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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Victor David Hansen's thoughts on 300 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • [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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