Difficult Quote by Elie Wiesel

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient…

— Camille Paglia

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history…

— Sarah Vowell

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is…

— Ysabeau S. Wilce

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield

I cannot write history unless I travel to the places where it happened. I spent a lot of time walking around the Eastern Mediterranean,…

— Bettany Hughes

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

— Lorraine Toussaint

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

— Goldwin Smith

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things

— Kobe Bryant

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

— Propertius

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

— Jared Harris