MAKEDON LION

Channel dedicated to educating about 7,000 year old Greek culture which is the basis of Western civilization. Always respectful to other cultures and social groups.
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AVATAR PICTURE:
4000 years ago, The Greeks developed FOOTBALL. It was played primarily by men but women also practiced it. This
marble relief from the National Museum of Archeology in Athens shows a Greek athlete balancing a ball on his thigh, demonstrating a training technique to the boy. This very same image is nowadays featured on the EuropeanCup trophy.
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Greece is considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization and shaped cultures throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa. Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, the Mediterranean region and Europe. The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts, inspiring the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and the Americas.
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The ancient Greeks taught that a person is a combination of a soul of divine origin and a body of a much lower nature.
During the fifth and fourth centuries BC, Socrates greatly increased the importance of the soul by treating it, rather than the body, as the real person
Plato, and Pythagoras, maintained that the soul is spiritual, immortal, and has no parts. He believed the soul is the source of one's mental activities and that it causes the body's movements. He regarded the soul as superior to the body and the most important part of a person. His ideas about the soul had a great influence on early Christian theologians.
For Aristotle, body and soul are more of a unity.
Christianity has long debated the nature of humanity and the relationship of body and soul. This debate has been strongly influenced by the Greek philosophers, particularly Plato and Aristotle. Augustine, one of the most influential Christian theologians, was strongly affected by Plato's ideas on the soul. But, around the thirteenth century, Thomas Aquinas adopted Aristotle's ideas and introduced a more unified picture of body and soul, rather than the easily separable body and soul advocated by Augustine and Plato. Then, In the seventeenth century René Descartes shifted church thinking back towards Plato's position of a dual human nature. It is the Descartes model that most now associate with the human body-soul relationship.
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(Columbia will turn the story of an ancient Greek military expedition in enemy Barbaric territory into an epic action film "the TEN THOUSAND", also in the works is the sequel to 300 LINKS BELOW)

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/08/02/sony-developing-epic-adaptation-of-xenophons-anabasis/

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56581
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XENOPHON----KATHODOS MYRION----
The Ten Thousand were a group of Elite Greek fighting units , drawn up by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne from his brother, Artaxerxes II. The elite Greek forces completely decimated the persians at the Battle of Cunaxa deep in enemy territory, and their extraordinary march back to Greece after been betrayed by the persians(401 BC-399 BC) was recorded by Xenophon (one of their leaders) in his work, " Anabasis" or "Kathodos Myrion" in Greek.
The Ten Thousand were composed of:

4000 hoplites under Xenias the Arcadian.
1500 hoplites and 500 light infantry under Proxenus the Boeotian,
1000 hoplites under Sophaenetus
the Stymphalian
500 hoplites under Socrates the Achaean
300 hoplites and 300 peltasts under Pasion the Megaran
1000 hoplites, 800 Thracian peltasts, and 200 Cretan archers under Clearchus of Sparta,
300 hoplites under Sosis the Syracusan
1000 hoplites under Sophaenetus the Arcadian
700 hoplites under Chirisophus the Spartan
1000 hoplites and 500 Thessalian peltasts under Menon

Never before or after has such a heroic deed been accomplished by a force which has since been unequaled in valor, fighting spirit and courage.

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