Quotes About Greece

Mucho antes de Cristo había en Grecia un poeta que decía: Tengo un gran arte, hiero duramente a aquellos que me hieren. Mi arte es más grande aún: quiero a aquellos que me quieren".

So dispatched, Aristagoras traveled to Athens—the most powerful city in Greece. Here he changed tactics: instead of speaking with the ruler, he addressed the crowd (in accordance with another of Herodotus's rules, that it seems to be easier to fool a crowd than a single person) and appealed directly to the Athenians to help the Ionians.

if you are from Africa you recognize Medusa's wings as the wings of Egypt, and you recognize the head of Medusa as the head of Africa; and what you realize you are seeing is the Western world's memorialization of that period in prehistory when the white male world of Greece decapitated and destroyed the black female Goddess/Mother tradition and culture of Africa.

Clytemnestra

Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was Greece,And the grandeur that was Rome.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!

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.

The dictator was due to quit Rome on March 18 to join his legions in Greece.

Thrace, a largely ungoverned territory to the east of Greece and Macedonia, stretched up to the river Danube

Thus the pagan notion of a trained professional speaker who delivers orations for a fee moved straight into the Christian bloodstream. Note that the concept of the "paid teaching specialist" came from Greece, not Judaism. It was the custom of Jewish rabbis to take up a trade so as to not charge a fee for their teaching.

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

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

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821, when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised

There was never a political entity of that name until 1821

GREEK REVIVAL' 1669–1833

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

The frontiers of the Greek state as we know it today mostly date from as recently as 1913.

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

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

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

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