History Quote by Jack Kerouac

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

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The trouble with ancient history is that, as far as I can tell, the vast majority of it took place a hell of a…

— John Powell

“Sooner or later every war of trade becomes a war of blood.”

— Eugene V. Debs

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

— B. W. Powe

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

— Raymond Queneau

“The small Greek city-states could not understand what the organisation of a great empire and the movement of many thousands of men entailed: they…

— Ernle Bradford

“He tells us how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because their rulers forgot how their parents gained them an empire. He…

— Pierce Brown

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

— Democritus

“the conquests of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic dynasties encouraged commercial and intellectual exchanges reaching from central Asia to India to the western Mediterranean. In…

— David Christian

“But you didn’t mention Orrigar I, the first king of the House of Chaldarina. He put an end to years of unrest and civil…

— Andrew Ashling