ζωή'ς Mythos

ζωή:
In ancient Greek language the term Zoé means life, although the Greek language contemplates three nouns that make the meaning of the word "life": Zoé, Bìos, Psyché.

In Aristotele’s thinking, the opposition between the two terms zoé ("naked life" common to all the living beings) and bìos (the "form of life" as sign and sense of the being) becomes an issue of philosophical reflection to distinguish between natural life and political existence, between man as living being and man as political subject.

In the time, inside the Greek-Roman world, Zoé comes to point out the universal concept of life, the "principle of life", common to all living beings, and in a religious sense, the "eternal life."

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