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Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say - when they have only their own madness to think if their miseries are worse than they ought to be.


Homer


#the-odyssey #men

They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn


Aeschylus


#men

…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.


Hesiod


#poetry #men

She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.


Alison Fell


#greece #greek-men #mother-son #men

It grew louder, siren crying from her the depth of very voice; Sweet melodies to guide me to the underworld.


Chika Onyenezi


#inspirational #inspirational

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.


Pierre Simon De Laplace


#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow


Theocritus


#inspirational #music #inspirational

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?


George Chakiris


#fail #greeks #open #restaurants #why

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.


Alistair Cooke


#flourishing #greeks #grew #hollywood #most

I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.


Brendan Coyle


#comedy #drama #greek #i #i see