Education Quote by Philip Roth

“That’s the way Greek drama worked.”

— Josephine Angelini

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

— Kevin Kelly

“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the…

— M.I. Finley

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

As an undergraduate, I studied the Greek and Roman classics, and I went to graduate school in classics intending to work on the presentation…

— Martha Nussbaum

“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the eyes or…

— Riley Redgate

“Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a…

— Terry Deary

“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin…

— Neal Stephenson

“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward…

— Daniel Mendelsohn