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
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
“Now any King who wants to call himself my equal wherever I went let him go." Sargon the Great / Enheduanna from… — Daniel Peter Buckley Copy Share Image
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the… — Athenagoras Copy Share Image
I have never met an intelligent optimist. That is not to say I think pessimism makes you intelligent, but I have always… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“However, according to another aspect, “Thyme” comes from the Greek word “Thymon” which means courageous. Also, the word “Thymos” originally had the… — Evelyn Copy Share Image
See how exciting Anthropology is? He’s a leading expert in ancient Greece. Now you should all change your majors so that you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
“What is a medium like telepresence but the extension--no, the very definition--of ourselves? Are we, who live things at a distance, the… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench… — Patric Juillet Copy Share Image
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift. If… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Their [Lacadaemonian] women, it is said, were bold and masculine, overbearing to their husbands in the first place, absolute mistresses in their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“The heroes of ancient Greece wept more often than our silly, sentimental modern women. They knew it did no good to hold… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is a temptress. We may try our best to avoid her. But what is certain is that at some point of… — Richie Singh Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
“...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic, but let each man bear his shield straight toward… — Tyrtaeus Copy Share Image
In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
When you think of the Olympics, you think of wrestling. It was a marquee event in ancient Greece and in the modern… — Cael Sanderson Copy Share Image
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