Quotes About Ancient

archaeologists have found the inscription ?????????? scratched on thousands of ancient Greek pots, given as gifts by older men to boys they found attractive. ??????????, ????? ? ????, "the boy is beautiful.

A is ???? is alpha: the inverted head of an ox. ? is ???? is beta: based on the floor plan of a house. ? is ? ???? is omega, the mega O: a great whale's mouth opening to swallow all the letters before it.

Singular and plural, noun stems and verb cases: Rex's enthusiasm for ancient Greek carries them through the worst hours.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones and usually you will find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.

At Rome, the price of goods soared.

the ruins that can be seen today are of a later building), where Spartacus once fought.

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Most of the Pompeian leaders died fighting and their heads were brought to Caesar for his inspection.

The Roman month lasted either twenty-nine or thirty-one days;

Ides" was the name for the thirteenth or the fifteenth, depending on the month's length.)

Caesar did not arrive until about eleven o'clock in the morning

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy.

Rome's ancient ruling class was decimated, and surviving nobiles were scattered to all corners of the empire

Tiberius, being his closest relative, called him by name and said, "Vale," "Farewell.

Augustus' body was laid on a pyre in the ustrinum, or crematorium, next to the mausoleum.

dozens of tribes and much given to piracy and brigandage.

Gaius was born in 20 B.C. and Lucius in 17.

The well-informed Parthians turned up out of the blue with a force of fifty thousand mounted archers

For all the wonders of ancient Athens, or rather because of them, I faced a fundamental question. How was it that this tiny community of 200,000 souls or so (in other words, no more populous than, say, York in England or Little Rock in Arkansas) managed to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavor and to create one of the greatest civilizations in history? Indeed, it laid the foundations of our own contemporary intellectual universe.

We lived in a valley, in foothills of ancient mountains. The trees waited for each generation to be born, to keep them company as they watched over us from high above.

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan.

Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

I'm mixed on figs. The fleshy quality feels spooky. In Italian, il fico, fig, has a slangy turn into la fica, meaning vulva. Possibly because of the famous fig leaf exodus from Eden, it seems like the most ancient of fruits. Oddest, too—the fig flower is inside the fruit. To pull one open is to look into a complex, primitive, infinitely sophisticated life cycle tableau.