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A Challenge to Ancient Greek Warriors
Chance Abattoir
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01-17-2006 22:53
If the Cyclops can forge things to help Zeus defeat Cronus, then you can probably bribe them to make something that will let you defeat Zeus. Why sacrifice things to gods when you can sell them to the poorer classes and turn a profit?
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Bertha Horton
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01-17-2006 22:56
And when are you guys going to auction the Mt. Olympus sim?
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Chance Abattoir
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01-17-2006 23:02
And why slay ALL the suitors? Wouldn't it be more profitable to hold a few for ransom?
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Chance Abattoir
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01-18-2006 11:52
Arete!
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Logan Bauer
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01-18-2006 13:02
The gods are not pleased with this insolence.

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Ulrika Zugzwang
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01-18-2006 13:12
Omphalos stone in a blanket. Mmm.

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Anat Enfield
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01-18-2006 19:38
From: Chance Abattoir
Arete!


No! Areté is subservient to logic!

(At least until Aristotle stops looking in this direction.)

Okay, he's gone. Areté is subservient to sophia!

(Go AWAY, Gorgias.)

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Ancient Greece is confusing.
Rick Deckard
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01-18-2006 22:10
One thing I was thinking about a little while ago. Cronus--doesn't cronus mean time? I mean, that's how we get words such as chronological, etc. And Zeus (or Dias in Greek), son of Cronus--doesn't dias mean something like two entities coming together, becoming one? I was thinking of words such as dialogue, diameter, etc. Now, if that's the case, does that mean that the Greeks essentially believed that time rules everything and that its immediate product was the coming together of separate entities, perhaps even birth itself, the birth of the universe(???) Some wild assumptions I made there--hehe. But if that's true, then it's waaayyy cool :cool:
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Ulrika Zugzwang
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01-18-2006 22:26
From: Rick Deckard
One thing I was thinking about a little while ago. Cronus--doesn't cronus mean time?
From Wikipedia: Kronus is not to be confused with Chronos, the personification of time. Check out the link to find more out about Cronus. It's interesting. :)

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Rick Deckard
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01-18-2006 22:40
Who the hell is Chronos? And why does he have (almost) the same name as Cronus?












Ancient Greece is confusing.
:p
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Chance Abattoir
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01-18-2006 23:31
From: Rick Deckard

Ancient Greece is confusing.
:p


::Casts Rick into the depths of Tartarus::
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Cybin Monde
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not Celina, but..
01-18-2006 23:56
From: Chance Abattoir
::Casts Rick into the depths of Tartarus::


aww.. *sniff* ..how i miss thee, Tartarus. (man, i wish we had been able to finish that cyber-punk RPG project!)


and wow those Greek gods were a murderous and treacherous bunch!!
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Enoch Lameth
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01-19-2006 03:22
The only real challenge here is to figure out who sired Eros. I think there were three possible pairs.




From: Rick Deckard
And Zeus (or Dias in Greek)


huh. Everything I read has this alternate name mentioned as a reconstructed Indo-European Sky-God, which supposedly became Zeus in Greece and Dyaus Pita in India.
Torley Linden
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01-19-2006 03:30
From: Cybin Monde
aww.. *sniff* ..how i miss thee, Tartarus. (man, i wish we had been able to finish that cyber-punk RPG project!)


I remember that too.

Kronos is an acceptable English spelling for Klingon homeworld.

Anyone else remember that ol' Hercules cartoon? It had this strikingly limited color palette which gave it a distinct air.
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