Quotes About Roderick

You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn." "Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.

Although he's never seen again on the show, Roderick is the first designer to use the term "homework" while talking to the homeowners about what needs to be done before the next morning. However, this is not the standard "homework assignment" scene that appears in later episodes. (Season 1, Episode4)

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

which has given Greeks their preeminent place in the modern world of shipping today

and as a result shared the fate of Syracuse.

By the time Justinian died in 565, aged over eighty

the other, a fragile alliance of Thebes, Corinth, Argos, and Athens, backed by Persia.

The only large, centralised, developed state with a Mediterranean coastline was Egypt.

Anywhere else on the coasts of the Mediterranean

into the Aegean by order of the Senate in 67 BCE with five hundred ships and over a hundred thousand

The standard Greek terms for these would soon become established as, respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

some supporting Macedonia, others, including Athens, supporting Rome.

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

The city is known to the Hittites as Millawanda and will later enter Greek history under the name Miletus.

couple of hundred miles to the north and slightly to the west, the strait known as the Dardanelles

Even Bohemond, the son of Robert Guiscard, who had fought against Byzantium before

into their hands and enslaved the children and women.

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

that trumps any residual loyalty that some may have felt towards the resurgent Greek-speaking state of Byzantium.

eventually to become known by the alternative Greek name, which may be no less ancient, Troy (Troia).

in broad daylight in the centre of Rome.

The decisive battle was fought at the beginning of August 338 BCE on the banks of the Cephisus River in Boeotia

I'm good at tailing people. I was an intelligence officer during World War I. My code name was the Crab." - Roderick Childermass