Biographies Quote by Franz Grillparzer

“The allure of antiquity... The echoes of bygone eras, where time seems to linger in the aged textures of ancients. A visceral connection to…

— Monika Ajay Kaul

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Steven Pressfield

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

— Martin Scorsese

“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced it had…

— Terry Eagleton

All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and…

— Anne Rice

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Goldwin Smith

Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to…

— Mary Beard

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

— Nazanin Boniadi

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis