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labours of hercules (heracles)

 
 
NickFun
 
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Reply Sat 26 Nov, 2005 04:44 pm
Francis wrote:
He just killed one.. and it was very small.


That brute! Killing a small dog! If he had killed a huge Pit Bull I could undertand but...what an A$$HOLE!
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Ellinas
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 12:02 pm
Setanta wrote:


And Heraclitus is the Latin version of the Greek name usually rendered in the Roman alphabet as Herakles. Or, as our new Greek member, Ellinas has it, Iraklis.


Hercules, Herakles, Iraklis or I don't know how else you can him he is the same person in Greek mythology. What can I tell you for sure is that his name is Ηρακλής/ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ.

But Iraklitos was a different person than Iraklis. Iraklitos was a pre-Socratic philisopher.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sun 27 Nov, 2005 04:09 pm
Thank you, Ellinas. It is Iraklitos who is credited with the notion that a man can't cross the same river twice. Names get difficult when they've been transliterated and filtered through three different languages -- ancient Greek, Latin and, finally, English.
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