Death Quote by Jostein Gaarder

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of…

— Xenophanes

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful…

— Eva Brann

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or thinks he…

— David Berger

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather…

— Terry Deary

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer…

— Carl Sagan

“Being mythological does wonders for one's ego.”

— Sylvia Plath

“With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of…

— Athenagoras

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were…

— Margaret Visser

“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It preaches changing…

— Helen Morales

“I should have learned my lesson from Greek myths, really. It so doesn't pay to fall in love with a god. It’s either you…

— Marian Tee