Quotes About History

The fate of Melos was by no means the only atrocity recorded by Thucydides

Now an empty shell, after its heart was blown out by a Venetian cannonball in 1687

Alternatively, it may be that a form of early Indo-European arrived with the first farmers

Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century

Greek slowly emerged—distinct from others of the Indo-European group and incorporating elements

the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic

What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.

is called Wilusa by the Hittites and Wilios, later Ilios or Ilion, by the Greeks

the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic, or New Stone Age.

perhaps even thousands, before our imagined Aegean dawn in the year 1500 BCE.

Buried in what he termed 'shaft graves', Schliemann uncovered the remains of the families

that had ruled there between about 1600 and 1450 BCE.

Buried with them was a fearsome array of swords, daggers, and spearpoints

Caligula, probably did not, in reality, appoint his horse as consul but would still be murdered by his own guards

The top of its dome still rises fifty-five metres above the pavements of modern Istanbul.

Athenian politician Lycurgus pronounced the obituary in 330 BCE

the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.

burst westwards and southwards towards Europe and the settled lands of the Middle East.

539, great numbers of them, called 'Huns' by Procopius, crossed the Danube

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

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

The dynasty he founded, the Mauryans, would go on to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent.

The Romans had expelled their last king in 509 BCE.

At the time of Constantine's deathbed baptism in 337, the overwhelming majority of his subjects were still pagans.