To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,” Daemon replied. “He is a… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriously appears each February… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
“At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure… — allimachus and Lycophron CXLII Copy Share Image
From the outside looking in you can never understand it. From the inside looking out you can never explain it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've been waiting for you," he murmured. Aphrodite slowly walked across the balcony, as her mind raced, trying to think of the… — Jennifer Paquette Copy Share Image
If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“In that moment, he chose Greek. He threw in his lot with Camp Half-Blood-and the horses changed. The storm clouds inside burned… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The words 'theory' and 'practice' are of Greek origin; they carry our thoughts back to the ancient philosophers by whom they were… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
