“Our journey is one of discovery on Sicily. Like the past Greek writers.orators,historians and philosophers we are all searching for answers on… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“And it was you who created us. The notion of male homosexuality didn’t exist in ancient Greece. Socrates could bugger Alcibiades without… — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“When people were attempting to persuade others in the legendary Arena in ancient Greece, frame battles were frequently conducted. The delivery and… — Josh King Madrid Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to… — Livy Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Trickster foxes appear in old stories gathered from countries and cultures all over the world -- including Aesop's Fables from ancient Greece,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and… — Allan Bérubé Copy Share Image
“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“…But don’t be late, Troy, or I’ll…” She hesitated and laughed, not entirely happily. “I don’t suppose I’ll ever need to worry… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Humanism had begun in Florence, Italy, about 20 years before the invention of the printing press. Many scholars there were astonished at… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion… — Al Masudi Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality… — Barry D. Adam Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is gay? Where are all these gay people coming from? Gay friends. Gay daughters of friends. Gay sisters-in-law. Gay suspects.… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all… — Jasmina Tešanović Copy Share Image
“And I shared with all Westerners a Greek heritage: If ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilization, I think it fair… — Esther Lightcap Meek Copy Share Image
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Western ‘civilisation’ has been based on the ideas of ancient Greece, where the concept of ‘democracy’ (government by the people) assumed that… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
“I could inject a brick in each of my butt cheeks and then be like ancient Greece: a ruin. Only, I’d ask… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“TEIRESIAS: Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
