Were Greeks Happy?

From: John R Russell (johnrrus@juno.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 1997 - 13:53:09 EDT

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Did the Greek language have any word that was in some way equivalent to
the English word "happy"? The closest that I could come were MAKARIOS or
XARA, both of which do not have our idea of happy. If they did not have
another term, can we draw a distinction between being happy and having
joy?

John Russell
Baptist Bible Seminary
ThM student

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