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“The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric…

— G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has…

— Gilbert Murray

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

— Nicholas Jarecki

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a…

— Mary Ann Tolbert

“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

— Epictetus

“Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.”

— Helen Keller

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

“The most amoral man could write a brilliant literary work. The freedom to express and create what he chose was the relevant thing, because…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

“The great impact of Hellenistic culture was, however, no in natural science, but in the more Plato-inspired imaginative literature. The modern novel has its…

— Norman F. Cantor