Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past…

“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.”

— Michael Pollan

“I tell you, because military training is not publicly recognised by the state, you must not make that an excuse for being a whit…

— Xenophon Memorabilia. 371BC Marchant translation

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and in conversations…

— Allan Bérubé

“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but…

— Barry D. Adam

“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the…

— Livy

“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out…

— Sophocles

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece,…

— Michel Onfray

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer…

— Carl Sagan

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue,…

— Blaise Pascal

“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more after…

— Sophocles

No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done…

— Christopher Dawson

Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates…

— Giles Coren

When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the…

— Graham T. Allison