By Nicholas Gage
In 1948, as civil warfare ravaged Greece, teenagers have been kidnapped and despatched to communist "camps" contained in the Iron Curtain. Eleni Gatzoyiannis, 41, defied the traditions of her small village and the phobia of the communist insurgents to rearrange for the get away of her 3 daughters and her son, Nicola. For that act, she used to be imprisoned, tortured, and performed in chilly blood.
Nicholas Gage joined his father in Massachusetts on the age of 9 and grew as much as develop into a best manhattan occasions investigative reporter, honing his talents with one proposal in brain: to come to Greece and discover the only tale he cared approximately such a lot: the tale of his mother.
Eleni takes you into the center a village destroyed within the identify of beliefs and into the soul of a very heroic girl.
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This is the most important concept in Epictetus’ moral teaching. 1–2) he means this in an absolute sense. For Epictetus, for something to depend on us, to be in our power, in our control, or up to us, this must be so invariably and always. 1 we are told that these things include our bodies, our possessions, our reputations and status, and ‘whatever is not our own doing’ (comprising, I take it, the actions of other people, and such things as the 34 Handbook Chapter 1 weather, the atomic weight of gold, and so forth).
If we do not do this, the inevitable result is that we will continue to desire what we may fail to obtain or lose once we have it, and in consequence suffer the unhappiness of emotional disquiet (or worse). And as is the common experience of all people at some time or other, when we are in the grip of such emotions we run the risk of becoming blind to the best course of action, even when construed in terms of pursuing ‘external’ things. The Stoic prokoptôn, in contrast, sets their hopes on excellence, recognising that this is where their power over things lies.
1 Epictetus offers a diagnosis of human misfortune and misery. We are unfortunate and miserable, he says, when our desires are frustrated and when we have to suffer that to which we are averse. The slip into medical analogy with the term ‘diagnosis’ is deliberate. 31), to which their students come to be cured of their ills. It is the task of Stoic ethics to provide diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. The prognosis is clear and stark: we will be miserable so long as we continue seeking to avoid sickness, death, and poverty (and by implication anything else to which we are averse).