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OK.\u00a0 So I’m listening to the history of Western Philosophy on the way into the museum today.\u00a0 The lecturer starts going on about Pyrrho of Elis.\u00a0 I thought.\u00a0 Cool.\u00a0 Not only is the name of his hometown near my own, he was the originator of radical skepticism, which boils down to my own philosophical position.<\/p>\n
Not only those two interesting things, but I also found this interesting note:<\/p>\n
Elis was the only city that built a temple to Hades in one of its precincts. The Eleans were the only one to worship him. The construction was built after Heracles’ war against Neleus in Pylos. Only once a year, the doors to the temple of Hades would open, but no one would enter the temple except the priests.<\/p>\n
So, here’s a nod to a philosophical ancestor, pictured here.\u00a0 And to his hometown of Elis and to the temple of Hades built there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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