Notes from Source: ἘϕήμϵρΟς, in early Greek literature, does not mean “creature of one day, short-lived” but “subject to the (changing) day, variable,” and the term implied that, along with the shifts and changes of a man’s life, his outlook and character fluctuate; thus man is unsubstantial and a mere “shadow in a dream.” Another line of thought stressed the benefits to be derived from voluntary adjustment to prevailing conditions and from versatile adaptation to each person with whom one has to deal. The concept of a mutable self emerged in the late epic period. – An appendix lists and exemplifies various connotations of the word ϵ΄ϕήμϵρΟς. It is followed by an index locorum.

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