{"id":3291,"date":"2025-03-31T23:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2025-03-31T23:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:31:29","slug":"the-four-ages-of-man-writes-konstantinos-konstantinidis-amphiktyon-our-ancient-ancestors-divided-the-ages-of-man-into-four-parts-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amphiktyon.org\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"THE FOUR AGES OF MAN writes Konstantinos Konstantinidis Amphiktyon Our ancient ancestors divided the ages of man into four parts: The Infant Age. These were infants and young children. The Greek mother has always shown great love and care for her children. At that time they had many children, but there was a high infant mortality rate and half of them died. Infancy was allegorized with a Muse rocking the cradle or kissing the infant on the forehead. Children in primary education around the age of seven were taught reading and reciting lyric poems of heroes, mainly from Homer, writing (in calligraphy competitions), and recitations accompanied by music and mathematics."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. In Youth Young people in Athens exercised and played sports, practiced horse riding, throwing javelin, discus, bow, pankration (judo) and other martial arts. Secondary education was optional at the family’s expense, they took lessons in transmitting standards of valor and ARETIS. They also recited works of Lyric Poetry accompanied by Music. Often the education of the young person was undertaken by a teacher at home or in a paid school. The purpose of the education of the young was the cultivation of the Body, Mind and Soul. The young people who wished continued with the tertiary education, we would call it education with further study of the philosophers, demagogy, and mainly martial training. The cutting of the students’ hair (we also had it cut in the 1st grade of elementary school and upon entering the SSE) symbolizes the bloody sacrifice. In the classrooms there was an image of Socrates, Plato or another philosopher, while other students were engaged in art. (Today they removed the images of the heroes of 1821?) They did not want the children to be uneducated and did not deprive them of their education by putting them to early work. The girls spun, sewed, wove while others did writing, dancing, singing, recitations and offering sacrifices to Hymenaeus, to bring them a lawful and honorable marriage. Youth was allegorized with a virgin who despises Aphrodite and gives her hand to Athena. Our ancestors took great care of the education and training of young people. Above all, they were to create virtuous citizens with Sobriety, Courage, Wisdom and Justice. In Sparta, young people left the family and lived in the barracks where they practiced in the Pack and hardened themselves in body and soul<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Manhood. Men taught young people the arts and sciences, some to orate, others to declaim. Parents and the family environment taught children love for their homeland, history, the exploits of heroes and the values \u200b\u200bof the tribe. The soldiers had the baton in their hands (since then, generals have been accustomed to carrying the baton). Women were busy with household chores, others with beautifying their home and themselves with stones and precious stones. Manhood was allegorized with a man sacrificing to the statue of Hercules, a symbol of male virtue, or sacrificing to Fortune or the goddess of Honor who holds in one hand a sword surrounded by laurels and in the other a book also surrounded by laurels. Because only virtue and education are armed with the homeland, which honors and glorifies men. Even the most official and distinguished citizens did not show their laurels in poetry, politics or art, but their bravery towards the homeland. Today, education gives the worst models to the child and sends him to anarchy, drugs, chaos and corruption. While our ancestors of the ENARETIS education which produced great sages (Socrates, Plato, etc.), giant politicians (Odysseus, Pericles, Aristides, etc.), soldiers (Heracles, Alexander the Great, Miltiades, Themistocles, etc.), scientists (Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Thales, Aristotle, etc.), lyric poets (Homer, Sophocles, Euripides, etc.), technicians (Eupalinos, Icarus, Heron of Alexandria, etc.) are accused of being “far right” and their parties, if they dare to act “Nazi”, from our time the sad and moral morons and traitors. 4.The Presbytika (Senior) Age. Most old war veterans remember the old days with distinction, while others counted their money and put it in a safe place. Some were angry with the young, others fell on the street, others sat by the fireplace to warm their feet, and others played with the children. The old women read books with reverence and offered sacrifice. Near them sit old soldiers, their weapons on the ground and showing off the awards of virtue and the scars of their wounds. The presbytika is allegorized with an old man raising his hands towards death, or sitting on a grave holding a candle turned upside down towards the ground. Then the old people died peacefully and naturally, without making any attempts to keep them alive by force. People reconciled themselves with death because they believed in the immortality of the soul and in transmigration. Then there were no “merchants of death” to keep the almost-dead intubated for the sake of profit. This was blasphemy and an insult to Pluto, god of the underworld, and to Mother Nature.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The Four Seasons allegorize “4” Ages
    Time Infancy in Spring, youth in Summer, manhood in Autumn and old age in Winter (30\/3\/25)<\/p>\n\n\n\n