You are at Miletus, on the coast of Asia Minor, home of Thales, the first of the seven wise men of old. Aristotle writes that Thales thought all things are full of gods (On the Soul 1.5), with the same four Greek words as below, in another order.
This line is from Plato's Laws. A stranger from Athens argues that the souls that move the sun, the moon and the stars are gods, and asks: will anyone who agrees deny that all things are full of gods?
From this lesson on, words you have already met are not marked as new, and you put the English in order before the translation shows. The help you have outgrown is kept under Lessons completed.
This lesson takes for granted the lessons before it. Not done yet: 1 Nothing in excess, 2 Know yourself, 3 Everything moves on, 4 Life is short, 5 The art is long, 6 The measure of all things, 7 I do not think I know, 8 The unexamined life, 9 An animal of the city.
Forgot how a letter is read? The whole alphabet
ClickTap a word to see what it means here, as you would in the reader. The words with a dotted line are new: pick what you think each one means, then it opens.
1 new word still to look at.