Again Quote by Flavius Josephus

“In Contra Celsus (IV, XVI-XVII), Church father Origen (c. 185-c.254 CE) discusses the death, resurrection and ascension of Dionysus, attempting to compare it unfavorably…

— D.M. Murdock

“Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer my question, Bacchus. I’m not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus) You better take a more…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of…

— Jeremy Taylor

“And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between…

— Donald Bain

“I have provided a possible explanation for Antiochus's insane foolhardiness when left in command of the Athenian Fleet, because Thucidides's bald account is so…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

“The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the…

— Marvin Perry

Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the…

— Laura Riding

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

“We are called to be strange in the same way that the early Christian communities were strange to the world around them. The community…

— Emmanuel Katongole

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out,…

— Thucydides

What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon