Greek Literature Quotes

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate.

I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.