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“If you’re looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine art, slaves are a necessity. That’s how the ancient Greeks felt, with slaves working the fields, cooking their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with mathematics. That was their idea of fine art.”

Art Poetry Mathematics Slavery Greek Literature

Book:Hear the Wind Sing

Source: Hear the Wind Sing

“Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray? Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselves Magistrate: You do? Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses? Magistrate: But that is not the same thing. Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing? Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War. Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!”

War Feminism Drama Pacifism Greek Literature

Book:Lysistrata

Source: Lysistrata

“Tako smo sjedili prilično dugo uz naš mangal i šutjeli. Opet sam osjetio kako je sreća jednostavna i prirodna stvar. A to je: čaša vina, jedan kesten, skromni mangal i šum morskih valova. Ništa drugo! Da bismo shvatili da je u tome sreća, potrebno je da budemo jednostavna i priprosta srca.”

Novel Greek Literature

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

“Are we Greeks, or are we barbarians?”

Greek Greek Mythology Greece Greek Gods Greek Tragedy Greek Philosophy Greek Quotes Greeks Greek Myths Greek Literature

Author:Pietros Maneos

“But this is ruin! New waves breaking in To wreck us, ere we are righted from the old!”

Play Greek Mythology Playwright Greek Gods Greek Tragedy Plays Greek Quotes Greek Myths Greek Literature

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“Plan harm for another and harm yourself most, The evil we hatch always comes home to roost.”

Greek Greek Mythology Greek Literature Hesiod

Book:Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days

Source: Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns: Including Theogony and Works and Days

“There’s one big thing I know, to pay back injury done to me with terrible injuries.”

Greek Greek Mythology Greek Literature

Book:Greek Lyric Poetry

Source: Greek Lyric Poetry

“Pluto claimed that in ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half - man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their whole lives searching for their other halves.”

Fiction Greek Mythology Dystopian Fiction Greek Literature

Author:Rick Riordan - The Blood of Olympus

“I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom the Greek word lives only while they are hunting for it in the lexicon, and who then substitute the English word for it, are not reading the Greek at all; they are only solving a puzzle.”

Greek Comprehension Language Learning Language Acquisition Greek Literature

Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Fear no fear, Princess Sophie, because I will always be there to help you and your life.”

Greek Tragedy Greek Literature 18th Century Literature

Book:Sophie, I am happy...

Source: Sophie, I am happy...

“If we do even one extra knot on our prayer rope, our guardian angel will record it; a few prayers or good thoughts will be stored up for later. Christ saves up all these things, and when the time comes for us to depart for the next life, we will take them and go to Christ.”

Orthodox Orthodoxy Monastic Life Greek Quotes Monasticism Greek Literature Monastic Monastic Traditions Morthodox Christianity

Book:Words of the Heart

Source: Words of the Heart