Goals Quote by Dimitri Gutas

“The translators of the LXX did not attempt to find a Greek word to correspond in sense with every Hebrew word or phrase. Sometimes…

— James John Courtenay

“Even after the Hellenistic empire of Alexander’s successors was supplanted by that of the Latin-speaking Romans, the usual linguistic development – the language of…

— Dimitri Gutas

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

“If you don’t speak Greek, how do you know if it’s all Greek to you?”

— Jarod Kintz

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

— Gilbert Murray

“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language…

— James John Courtenay

“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.”

— James John Courtenay

“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must be explained…

— James John Courtenay

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

— Tariq Ramadan

“Greeks did not invent philosophy, philosophy had existed across Latin America, Africa, Arabia, India and China, thousands of years earlier, not as some elitist…

— Abhijit Naskar

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“[English] fails me utterly when I attempt to describe what I love about Greek, that language innocent of all quirks and cranks; a language…

— Donna Tartt