Faith Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

— Voltaire

Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be…

— Will Cuppy

But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually…

— Lewis H. Lapham

We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger,…

— Anatole France

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake of excusing…

— Ashim Shanker

I'll never forget Rome and what I experienced there.

— Marquinhos

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.

— Ali Smith

“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the…

— Hannah Arendt

“Naples and Pompeii Today we took the express train south to Naples. The guide on our city tour pointed out some of the magnificent…

— Lisa Halvorsen

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east…

— Isaac Newton