Anthropologists Quote by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays…

— Wes Craven

Both mythology and history interest me.

— Mohit Raina

“It was as if a vital evolutionary advantage had been bestowed centuries ago on those members of the species who lived in a state…

— Alain de Botton

“For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity…

— Randy J. Paterson

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their…

— Alice Oswald

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo…

— Henning Mankell

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society'…

— Rene Girard

I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse, the Persian,…

— Vera Nazarian

“A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. But the most important information that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Steven Pressfield

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche