Answer | Crossword Clue |
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archontic | relating to an archon, the chief magistrate in ancient Athens |
dictator | (in ancient Rome) A chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency |
theoric | (in ancient Greece) relating to theorica or the public moneys spent to fund festivals, religious ceremonies or entertainment in Athens |
epicureanism | An ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus. The school rejected determinism and advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, esp. that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods |