Quote by Leonard William King

“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language…

— James John Courtenay

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

— M.I.A

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

— M.I.A

Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained…

— Eric A. Havelock

Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English,…

— Fulcher of Chartres

“Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians,…

— Robin Lane Fox

“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must be explained…

— James John Courtenay

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.

— J. B. Bury

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare