Eleutheria may refer to:
- Eleutheria, (ἐλευθερία, pronounced [elefθe'ria]) an ancient and modern Greek term for, and personification of, liberty. Liberty, the freedom to act or believe without being stopped by unnecessary force I.F. Stone, who taught himself Greek in his old age, wrote a book, The Trial of Socrates, pointing out that Socrates and Plato do not value 'eleutheria', freedom, instead were Sparta-lovers, wanting a monarch, an oligarchy, instead of a democracy, a republic. Isidor Feinstein Stone ( December 24 1907 &ndash June 18 1989; born Isidor Feinstein, better known as I Michel Foucault, in lectures given at Berkeley and Boulder, made the same argument for Socrates' failure to invoke 'parrhesia', freedom of speech, the obligation to speak the truth for the common good at personal risk, in his own defense at his trial, preferring to die in obedience to law as above men. Michel Foucault ( (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984 was a French philosopher, Historian, Intellectual, Critic and Sociologist. In the classic discipline of Rhetoric, parrhesia is a figure of speech described as to speak candidly or to ask forgiveness for so speaking. Athenians held that they democratically shaped law, seeing Socrates' stance as treason.
- Eleutheria personified had a brief career on coins of Alexandria. Alexandria ( Egyptian Arabic: اسكندريه Eskendereyya; Standard Arabic: ar الإسكندرية Al-Iskandariyya; Ἀλεξάνδρεια
- Eleutheria, the title of a posthumously published play by Samuel Beckett. Eleutheria (some times rendered "Eleuthéria" see image is a play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1947 Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 was an Irish Writer, Dramatist and poet
- In Ancient Greece, Eleutheria was an epithet for the goddess Artemis, and as such she was worhipped in Myra of Lycia. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca An epithet (from Greek ἐπίθετον - epitheton, neut of ἐπίθετος - epithetos, "attributed added" is a In Greek mythology, Artemis language|Greek] ( Nominative), ( Genitive))] was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister Myra is an ancient town in Lycia, where the small town of Kale ( Demre) is situated today in present day Antalya Province of Turkey "Sidyma" redirects here For the Moth Genus named thus see Sidyma (moth.
- From early modern times Eleuthera has been the name of an island in the Bahamas, the first island settled by Separatists from Bermuda in 1647, who represented some of the most liberal interpretations of religious tolerance of the time. The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent sovereign English -speaking country consisting of two thousand Cays and Ba (officially The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The island inspired a song of the same title (but spelt "Eleutheria") by Lenny Kravitz (1993), which includes the lines,
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- What a beautiful feeling it's bringing
- All the birds in the sky are singing
- Eleutheria the fire is burning. Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American Singer-songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Record . .
- Eleutheria is the title of a volume of Oscar Wilde's shorter poems published in 1881, its title inspired by one of its poems, the "Sonnet to Liberty" that includes the lines:
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- Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes
- See nothing save their own unlovely woe. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of Year 1881 ( MDCCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common . .
- "Eleutheria" is the title of a song by Jason Webley on the 1999 release Against the Night. Jason Webley is a musician who began as a busker, playing accordion in the streets of Seattle, but has since moved in-doors and on stage playing venues and The song concerns removing oneself from society at large.
- Eleutherion is an ancient Byzantine port near Istanbul, Turkey. Istanbul (historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see the other Names of Istanbul) is the largest city of Turkey Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches
- Eleutheria is the title of a song by Lenny Kravitz on the Are You Gonna Go My Way Album
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