Questions tagged [greece]
for questions about claims based in Greece, or limited in Greece.
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Did Socrates have a homosexual relationship with an Athenian statesman?
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states:
"Alcibiades also ...
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Did Plato say “we can change reality by changing our mind”?
The complete quote is:
Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.
I found this quote on Goodreads and on this blog and on Pinterest. However, none of these cites ...
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Did Aristotle say words to the effect of "when you put a message on a blank slate, that first message is critical"?
I want to verify this:
“Aristotle always said, a long time ago, that when you put a message on a blank slate, that first message is critical,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for ...
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Did 79% of Greeks not have health insurance in 2013?
The following claim on recession in Greece is pretty shocking on its face, but also a little muddy:
Citing OECD data of 2013, the BoG [Bank of Greece] underlines that 79% of the population in Greece ...
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Did the Greeks provide Turks with ammunition during the Greek War of Independence to save the Parthenon?
The following anecdote can be found in the History Revealed magazine from January 2015.
In 1822, during the Greek War of Independence, Turkish troops found themselves under siege at the Acropolis – ...
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Did Yanis Varoufakis tweet to Lagarde about repaying dues?
There's a screenshot of a Twitter status circulating suggesting that at 1:19 AM - 1 Jul 2015 Yanis Varoufakis tweeted:
@Lagarde sorry for the delay. I am really trying to pay the due but I cannot ...
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Did classical Greeks claim that children are solely products of the father's sperm?
I just read on a site about Greek mythology:
It may seem odd for Metis to have been pregnant with Athena but, never mentioned as her mother. This is because the classic Greeks believed that children ...
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Did Thales conduct experiments in electricity?
Many school texts and other popular sources claim Thales of Miletus conducted experiments in electricity, showing amber to attract feathers, for example, supposedly.
However, I can find no verifiable ...
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Could greek euro notes become forcibly converted to drachmas?
The british MP John Redwood recently claimed in the Daily Mail that
It’s unlikely, but what you could have is a situation whereby Greece
had to leave the eurozone and their euros were ...
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