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Olympian calm

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Homer

Phraseologism: Olympian calm.

Meaning: Equanimity, self-control.

Origin: From the poem (6th book) "Odyssey" by the legendary poet of Ancient Greece Homer (IX century BC), who speaks in it of "Olympic calmness". The gods of the ancient Greeks lived on Mount Olympus, where the entrance to mere mortals, that is, people, was closed. Therefore, neither human fuss nor anxiety reached the immortal gods - calm reigned on Olympus, and the gods themselves were invariably majestic, solemn and imperturbable.

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Marginal.

Meaning:

Human. "dropped out of life", an asocial personality, far from the basic moral values generally accepted in society.

Origin:

From the article "Population Migration and the Marginal Personality" (1928) by the American sociologist Robert Park (1864-1944). So he called a person who, as a result of migration, "lives in two different cultural groups." From English. marginal-1 words. written in the margins (of a book) 2. on the edge (of something) 3. insignificant, insignificant, etc.

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