Author

David Konstan

David Konstan was an American classicist and scholar of the ancient world who taught at Brown University and New York University. He was especially known for work on Greek and Latin literature, philosophy, emotion, beauty, and friendship in antiquity.
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Terms for Eternity

“…aionios does not mean ‘eternal’; it acquires this meaning only when it refers to God, and only because the notion of eternity was included in the conception of God. In particular when it is associated with life or punishment, in the...