Army Quote by James Russell Lowell

“And seeing all the Hellespont covered over with the ships and all the shores and the plains of Abydos full of men, then Xerxes…

— H.G. Wells

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should…

— Garry Kasparov

Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army…

— Peter Singer

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

“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

“There was no politics in Persia because the great king was the master of slaves, not rulers of citizens. The point is beautifully made…

— Alan Ryan

“The Greeks rebult Athens, building the incredible Acropolis and the blackened columns of the original Parthenon were set into the walls. The Greeks would…

— Julian Noyce

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been…

— Alexander the Great

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

— Livy

“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.”

— Simonides

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

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

— James John Courtenay