Quotes from Robin Lane Fox

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

I wish I was here, or I wish I was there...' In our age of global travel we are all potential heirs to the simile of Hera's flight.

Their (the Greeks)encounters with foreign were not coloured by the belief that such people's religion was false and inferior, the belief that thinges Christians, Muslims, Hindus or atheist nowadays

Those who idealize the past tend not to understand it: restoration kills it with kindness.