Quotes About Ancient

In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into the history of music, inevitably you're going to have to get into sacred religious music.

ten tonnes of copper ingots together with quantities of tin, jars that would have contained olive oil

The 'Persian Wars', as the two campaigns of 490 BCE and 480–479 BCE have been known ever since, were over.

the urban space was dominated by the imposing rock known as the Acropolis

The Athenians had failed in the fifth century BCE; now it was to be the turn of the Spartans.

Athens and the Greek peninsula marked the western limit of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms

tempted by Hannibal's offer to ensure the 'liberty of the Hellenes

the Greek city-states of Sicily had been fighting off their rivals, the Carthaginians

the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.

Sicily had been effectively divided between the Greeks in the east of the island and the Carthaginians in the west.

Archimedes of Syracuse, a friend and kinsman of the ruling dynasty

the world's first functioning democracy is usually said to have been created in Athens during the years 508–507 BCE.

In the minds of the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of the citizen that defined the state, rather than the other way round.

they did so by invitation of the pharaoh.

Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE

Eratosthenes of Cyrene, a polymath and one of the first directors of the library

Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth

As the century wore on, the Delian League was matched by the 'Peloponnesian League'

it seems to have been only at this time that the word demokratia came to be coined

The Spartans would never afterwards sign up to any treaty that included recognition of Messene as a free polis.

The basic technology of writing had been known for at least two thousand years already—nothing new about that.