Gilbert Murray

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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