What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?.
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t..
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization..
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its twin blades….
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved f….
Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! The….
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward..
The word crisis- is from the Greek, meaning a moment to decide.- The recurrent moments of crisis and decision when understood, are growth junctures, ….
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body ….
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together..
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry..
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?.
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milto….
A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms..
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that ….
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes..
I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people..
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of ….
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and….
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don'….