It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy..

.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "ref….

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly..

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek..

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you..

A painting is more than the sum of its parts.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'.

If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But if you focus….

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done..

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being..

Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimes….

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry..

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving..

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep..

The rest of the world in which I lived was still stumbling about in search of a weapon with which to exterminate this monster [homosexuality] whose s….

I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians wil….

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology..

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning….

American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting..

Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus..

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persia….