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What trait in excess did the ancient Greeks feel could bring about even the most celebrated hero's downfall?
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Hubris - overweening self-importance and self-aggrandisement, which led people to get themselves into trouble with others. Many politicians today have this problem.
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What allowed Greeks to interact with other peoples and cultures?
They had two main motivating factors - trade, and their shortage of land which led them to seize land all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to settle a burgeoning excess population.
How did the Greek philosophers solve problems?
The Ancient Greeks believed that the Earth was made up of four elements: Earth, water, fire and air. These elements then corresponded with the seasons due to their properties: e.g. fire =F= summer because it is associated with heat. This idea also extended into medicine, as Hippocratic ideas were established, where it was believed that the body was made up from four humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, and one became ill when any of these humours became out of balance. This idea was not difficult for the Ancient Greeks to accept as the each humour corresponded with a season. For example: blood =F= spring (it is warm and moist) phlegm's =F= winter (one was thought to have an excess of phlegm's when one had a cold, therefore due to the fact one usually gets colds in the winter this humour was associated with it) yellow bile =F= summer (an excess of this humour was thought to cause sweating, and the yellow colour is also thought to be summery) black bile =F= autumn (the colour of the dead leaves is associated with this humour, and it was also thought to cause dry skin, again a similar property of dry leaves). I hope this answer is a satisfactory one
What time did realism paint excess?
Excess is something which characterizez Baroque painting, i.e. roughly the 17th century.
What was the most important factor that helped ancient Greece grow?
Fecundity - even with the losses in continuous fighting between the city-states, the excess population could not be supported by the limited land which the city-states owned, so this excess was put on ships to g and seize new land for themselves around the Mediterranean ad Black Seas. This way the Greek world grew fro a few dozen city-states to over 2,000.
What were the greatest criticism towards Napoleon?
An excess of ego.
What did Homer eat?
The ancient Greeks usually ate a Mediterranean diet. Meaning grains, vegetable's, fruit's, some fish, but very little meat. Poor Greeks usually ate vegetarian diets because they could afford meat. They also drank an excess of wine because it was easier to get than fresh water. A typical Ancient Greek meal would consist of a relish, grain, and wine.
To the Greeks these two gods manifest the extremes of moderation and excess?
Moderation was embodied in the goddess Sophrosyne. However Sophrosyne is also a concept, and the opposite of it is Aphrosyne, however, the Greeks had no God as such. The closest they had was Ate, the personification of recklessness.
What did Greeks have to do with Asia Minor?
The mainland Greek cities established cities around the coastline to take their excess population.
Why did Greeks need to set up new colonies during Persian war?
The Greeks were prolific breeders, which is why they established colonies all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to provide for their excess population which could not be maintained in such a poor countryside as mainalnd Greece. The Persian War lasted spasmodically for fifty years, and the casualties in the war were no more able to absorb the excess population than had the normal internal wars before and after the Persian War. So the colonies continued to be established, then and later.
What allowed Greeks to interact with other peoples and cultures?
They had two main motivating factors - trade, and their shortage of land which led them to seize land all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas to settle a burgeoning excess population.
What is the ancient secret to fat loss?
In my opinion, there is no secret, ancient or modern. A high quality diet, no starving, coupled with plenty of exercise. Plenty of patience is needed too, excess weight accumulated over 10 years does not come off in 10 days.
Fifteenbones of ancient men take back six but leave ten?
What you do is take away the excess bones. When taken away, the left over bones should spell TEN.
When thiamin is consumed in excess of needs how does the body treat excess?
it does not absorb excess
When thiamin is consumed in excess of needs how does the body treat the excess?
it does not absorb excess
What is the plural for excess?
The plural of excess is excesses.
What is the adverb for excess?
Excess doesn't have an adverb.
How do you use the word excess in a sentence?
There was an excess of liquid in his body.He drank in excess the other night.
