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Eleutheria

Eleutheria (??e??e??a, pronounced [elef?e'ria]) is an ancient and modern Greek term for, and personification of, liberty

Liberty

Liberty, the freedom to act or believe without being stopped by unnecessary force, is generally considered in modern time to be a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has the right to act according to his or her own free will....
. Eleutheria personified had a brief career on coins of Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
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I.F. Stone, who taught himself Greek in his old age, wrote a book, The Trial of Socrates, pointing out that Socrates and Plato do not value 'eleutheria', freedom, instead were Sparta-lovers, wanting a monarch, an oligarchy, instead of a democracy, a republic.

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Eleutheria (??e??e??a, pronounced [elef?e'ria]) is an ancient and modern Greek term for, and personification of, liberty

Liberty

Alexandria

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault was a French philosophy, historian, intellectual, Critical theory and sociologist. He held a chair at the Coll?ge de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley....
, in lectures given at Berkeley and Boulder, made the same argument for Socrates' failure to invoke 'parrhesia

Parrhesia

In the classic discipline of rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as: to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking....
', freedom of speech, the obligation to speak the truth for the common good at personal risk, in his own defense at his trial, preferring to die in obedience to law as above men. Athenians held that they democratically shaped law, seeing Socrates' stance as treason.

In Ancient Greece, Eleutheria was also an epithet

Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
for the goddess Artemis

Artemis

In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
, and as such she was worshipped in Myra

Myra

File:Myra Theatre.JPGMyra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey....
of Lycia

Lycia

Lycia was a region in Anatolia in what are now the Provinces of Turkey of Antalya Province and Mugla Province on the southern coast of Turkey. It was a federation of ancient cities in the region and later a Roman province of the Roman Empire....
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Eleutheria (Hydrozoa) is a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of hydrozoans.
Eleutheria (play)
Eleutheria (play)

Eleutheria is a play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1947. It was his first completed dramatic endeavour . Roger Blin was considering staging it in the early 1950s, but opted for Waiting for Godot, because it was so much cheaper....
is a posthumously published play by Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish people writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalism....
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Eleutheria is the title of a volume of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish people playwright, Irish poetry and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest Celebrity of his day....
's shorter poems published in 1881, its title inspired by one of its poems, the "Sonnet to Liberty" that includes the lines:

Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe...

"Eleutheria" is the title of a song by Jason Webley
Jason Webley

Jason Webley is a musician who began as a busking, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, but has since moved in-doors and on stage, playing venues and festivals all across the world....
on the 1999 release Against the Night. The song concerns removing oneself from society at large.
"Eleutheria" is also a song by Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is a popular United States singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arrangement whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock music, soul music, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, traditional music and ballad ....
on the 1993 album Are You Gonna Go My Way
Are You Gonna Go My Way

Are You Gonna Go My Way is the third studio album by American rock music musician Lenny Kravitz, released on March 9, 1993 in music by Virgin Records America....
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Eleutheria
Student Housing Cooperative at Michigan State University

MSU Student Housing Cooperative is a nonprofit student owned and operated housing cooperative serving students in the East Lansing, Michigan area....
was a student co-operative at Michigan State University
Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public university research university in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan United States. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act....

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