The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were…

— Margaret Visser

Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as…

— Raymond Moody

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so…

— Paul Provenza

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

— Dorothea Brande

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”

— Marion G. Harmon

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in…

— Henning Mankell

The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts…

— Tom Chatfield

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks…

— Simon Van Booy

“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity,…

— Hermann Weyl

While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice…

— Tim O'Reilly

The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as…

— Tim Birkhead

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the slight buzz…

— Christopher Hitchens

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the…

— Andrew Lang

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

— Pindar