Quote by Aeschylus

“I am a son of Achilles and Athens is my spiritual home.”

— Hekataios Amerikos

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until my tears…

— Pietros Maneos

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

Wonderful, Annabeth thought. Her own mother, the most levelheaded Olympian, was reduced to a raving, vicious scatterbrain in a subway station. And, of all…

— Rick Riordan

“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have…

— Simonides

“THOMASINA: ....the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue. Oh, Septimus! --…

— Tom Stoppard

“Δεν μου είχαν πει πως τα μάτια αιχμαλωτίζουν.... Αλλιώς θα έκλεινα τα δικά μου όταν σε αντίκριζα. Καλύτερα σε ένα ειρηνικό σκοτάδι παρά σε…

— Georgia Kakalopoulou

“I take it you do not agree with your countrymen’s religious practices.’ ‘Oh no,’ said Hippothous. ‘I am not Cilician by birth. Mine has…

— Harry Sidebottom

Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly…

— Mary Doria Russell

“Επιθυμίες Σαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασαν και τάκλεισαν, με δάκρυα, σε μαυσωλείο λαμπρό, με ρόδα στο κεφάλι και στα πόδια γιασεμιά --…

— Constantine P. Cavafy

“τὸ γὰρ γράμμα ἀποκτέννει, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ζῳοποιεῖ. The letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.”

— Paul of Tarsus

“Live in obscurity--lathe biōsas (λάθε βιώσας)”

— Epicurus