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“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play and poem,…

— Adam Rogers

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“Alexandria,” he began, the name lingering on the morning air as though it did not belong amongst trees, but instead somewhere much safer, much…

— S.C. Parris

“the people were steeped in the crepuscular gloom of antiquity; and were wise with all manner of accumulated lore; and were subtle in the…

— Clark Ashton Smith

Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of…

— Philo

“There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand heavens: Lo,…

— Ezra pound

“The great impact of Hellenistic culture was, however, no in natural science, but in the more Plato-inspired imaginative literature. The modern novel has its…

— Norman F. Cantor

“She stood watching a ritual she had seen many times before, yet which now seemed odd and extremely archaic; as if everything - the…

— stephen r. lawhead

“The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year. They glowed in their arbours of burnished green leaf like lanterns, flickering up there among…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Let us get of these indoor narrow modern days, whose twelve hours somehow have become shortened, into the sunlight and the pure wind. A…

— Richard Jefferies

The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which…

— Edward Gibbon

“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by Atlanteans, gods,…

— Ronald Wright