
HoP 080 - Delphic Utterances - Plutarch
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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This episode is brought to you by the letter e. We'll be discussing topics like evil, eternity and ethics. But i'd like to begin with the letter e itself, or rather the greek letter epsilon. It would seem that at the ple of apollo in delphi, the ancient greeks had placed not only statues and inscriptions, such as the famous know thyself, but also models of the letter epsilon. Why, you might ask, would they do such a thing? By the age of the early roman empire, the answer to this question was lost in the mists of time,. Among the inquiring minds was a man who had
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