Hebdomade
The Athenian poet and statesman Solon (640 BC – 559 BC) divided a human life into ten Hebdomads (ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomas): "the number seven") of seven years each .
He described these ten ages in his famous elegy Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος :
Man is first boy, immature: then he throws his teeth
Hag, who sprouted from the child, of himself in the seventh year.
When the other time God closed the seven of the years
Signs of manhood then germinate, the approaching one.
During the third his chin ruffles - his limbs are still growing -
Woolly fluff, as the skin fades away from bloom.
Now in the fourth up to high, full growth
Strength matures, the man shows what is good in it.
With the fifth he has time to think freely
And that in the sons of the future there will be an enduring tribe.
During the sixth the spirit spreads itself right on all sides,
Courage never drives him to do nothing.
Seven sevens and eight: in full bloom
Stand tongue and mind: fourteen years together.
Even in the ninth, the man is fit, but show more casual
Against the full growth of the tongue from now on and wit.
Who got into the tenth, completing the tenth according to measure,
Hardly at the wrong time would death fall on him.
Παῖς μὲν ἄνηβος ἐὼν ἔτι νήπιος ἕρκος ὀδόντων
φύσας ἐκβάλλει πρῶτον ἐν ἕπτ 'ἔτεσιν ·
τοὺς δ 'ἑτέρους ὅτε δὴ τελέσῃ θεὸς ἕπτ' ἐνιαυτούς,
ἥβης ἐκφαίνει σήματα γιγνομένης ·
τῇ τριτάτῃ δὲ γένειον ἀεξομένων ἔτι γυίων
λαχνοῦται, χροιῆς ἄνθος ἀμειβομένης ·
τῇ δὲ τετάρτῃ πᾶς τις ἐν ἑβδομάδ 'ἐστὶν ἄριστος
ἰσχύν, ἥν τ 'ἄνδρες σήματ' ἔχουσ 'ἀρετῆς ·
πέμπτῃ δ 'ὥριον ἄνδρα γάμου μεμνημένον εἶναι
καὶ παίδων ζητεῖν ἐξοπίσω γενεήν
τῇ δ 'ἕκτῃ περὶ πάντα καταρτύεται νόος ἀνδρός,
οὐδ 'ἕρδειν ἔθ' ὁμῶς ἔργ 'ἀπάλαμνα θέλει ·
ἑπτὰ δὲ νοῦν καὶ γλῶσσαν ἐν ἑβδομάσιν μέγ 'ἄριστος
ὀκτώ τ ', ἀμφοτέρων τέσσαρα καὶ δέκ' ἔτη ·
τῇ δ 'ἐνάτῃ ἔτι μὴν δύναται, μαλακώτερα δ' αὐτοῦ
πρὸς μεγάλην ἀρετὴν γλῶσσά τε καὶ σοφίη ·
τὴν δεκάτην δ 'εἴ τις τελέσας κατὰ μέτρον ἵκοιτο,
οὐκ ἂν ἄωρος ἐὼν μοῖραν ἔχοι θανάτου.
The anthroposophy comes from the people of a seven-year cycle in the development. These periods of time still play a major role in the organization of the Waldorf School .
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Pape
- ↑ from ἑπτά (hepta): “seven”; from Latin hebdomada , "week", "number of seven"
- ↑ German by Wolfgang Schadewaldt in: Lifetime and Greisenalter in early Greek . The antique. Journal of the Art and Culture of Classical Antiquity. Volume 9 (1933), page 282. See also Baltrusch . Greek original from Philon of Alexandria : Περί της κατά Μωυσέα κοσμοποιίας, el.wikisource (XXXV) 103 ( p. 36 f. Archive.org ), as well as from Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert : The story of the soul . 3rd edition 1839, page 353 books.google