Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
A heroic nature is very Greek.
I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.
I turned to Annabeth and shook my head in exasperation. “Always Hercules. What is it with Hercules?” Annabeth shrugged. “He had a great publicist.
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
