Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of…

Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm…

— William Braithwaite

“The city waits for thunder's echo, for a wall of heat that burns Lahore with the energy of a thousand summers, a million partitions,…

— Mohsin Hamid

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— S.F. Chandler

“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

“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