Classics Quote by Martha Nussbaum

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics.…

— Tim Blake Nelson

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

— Martha Nussbaum

I got my degree in philosophy and English literature; those were my main interests.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

“If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over…

— Philip Roth

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you…

— Alan Bennett

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

— Jared Harris

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

— Emma Healey

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus

I read a lot of Greek mythology and thrillers.

— Akshara Haasan

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly