Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hel….
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been study….
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy..
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identifie….
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro..
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'.
The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove..
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionali….
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause..
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule alwa….
So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I sup….
Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many of the….
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't have our conc….
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, final….
If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours..
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'….
I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought Edward Albee to this cou….
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is me….
There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”..
That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha..
The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good, just mag….