Athenians Quote by Plutarch

“There was a young man favorably endowed as an Alcibiades. He lost his way in the world. In his need he looked about for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“I have provided a possible explanation for Antiochus's insane foolhardiness when left in command of the Athenian Fleet, because Thucidides's bald account is so…

— Rosemary Sutcliff

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied…

— Plutarch

“Whilst he was very young, he was a soldier in the expedition against Potidaea, where Socrates lodged in the same tent with him, and…

— Plutarch

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though…

— Aristotle

“As they were speaking, a dog that had been lying asleep raised his head and pricked up his ears. This was Argos, whom Odysseus…

— Homer

“Now left to man's ingratitude he lay, Unhoused, neglected in the public way; And where on heaps the rich manure was spread, Obscene with…

— Homer

“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the non-punishment of…

— J. M. Robertson

“He did not appear to be a very tall man; what I could see of legs seemed stumpy, though heavily muscled. His chest was…

— Ben Bova

“ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for…

— Kahlil Gibran

“And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts; and green sparks rose from the armour,…

— Lord Dunsany

“The mightiest kings have had their minions; Great Alexander loved Hephaestion, The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus, stern Achilles drooped. And…

— Christopher Marlowe