Quotes About Greece

compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?

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

Among them was Polybius, who would spend the next twenty years of his life there

Alexander, son of Philip, and the Hellenes, excluding the Lacedaemonians

the stadium at Olympia was enlarged in the fifth century BCE, it could accommodate a crowd of forty thousand

The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones

Pericles was among its victims. It was the first pandemic in recorded history. Thucydides, who himself became infected

it has been estimated that the Iliad would have taken three full days to perform before an audience

and broke through the undefended Balkans to devastate all of mainland Greece north of the Peloponnese.

Should the main line of defence be drawn at the Isthmus of Corinth, as the Spartans proposed?

From Thessaly, the only way for an army to enter southern Greece

was through the narrow pass known as Thermopylae, where the crags of Mount Oeta fell

American, Swiss, and Japanese taxpayers are pretty honest. So are most of the other Western European democracies. Greece, Spain, and Italy are not. In fact, the level of tax evasion in Greece is such that the country's deficit—which is so large that Greece has teetered on the brink of outright bankruptcy for years—would all but disappear if Greek citizens obeyed the law and paid what they owed.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

Three poets, in three distant ages born,Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd;The next, in majesty; in both the last.The force of Nature could no further go.To make a third, she joined the former two.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

is probably as good a single explanation as any for the fall of both Greece and Rome.

Greece wishes to be part of the eurozone, but it must, of course, go through with the necessary reforms to make this happen.

The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it.

The differences between Plato and Aristotle had already been much debated. The argument stretched back to ancient Greece, where Aristotle had criticized and corrected Plato, the teacher with whom he began to study in 367 BC, when he was seventeen and Plato around sixty.

The term "dialectic" has its origins in ancient Greece. It was seen as a special process of dialogue whereby opposing views or opinions could be reconciled with each other to establish the truth.

I had scarce time to grab a few important scrolls. Desperately I sought for Ovid, whom Pandora had so loved, and for the great tragedians of Greece. Avicus reached out his arms to help me.

Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way up the Aegean coast. The Turks, however, had found a leader in Mustafa Kemal (Kemal Atatürk) with no regard for treaties and a committed hatred of the Greeks. He drove their army back into Smyrna, and then did what any Turkish leader would have done: massacred them.

As we have seen, by the time it ended, nearly 4 million Bengalis starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere. 'The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious' than that of 'sturdy Greeks', he argued.