Behinds Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing…

— Ambrose Bierce

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

— Plato

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather.…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer…

— Carl Sagan

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

“In ancient Greece, some people did that for a living. They would just sit on a tree branch or a stone bench and ponder,…

— Patric Juillet

The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded…

— Joseph Jacobs

“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When I was…

— Joseph Campbell

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of…

— Xenophanes

“And it has stayed there, calmly in its spot, growing slowly, producing leaves, losing leaves, producing more, as those mammoths became extinct, as Homer…

— Matt Haig

What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named,…

— Origen

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder