#greek

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

— Gilbert Murray

#did #express #fictitious #greek #heroic

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#country #greek #greek people #i #people

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#experience #first #greek #i #kill

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#courageous #decided #done #equal #greek

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. ↗

— George Tenet

#greek #i #nature

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy. ↗

— Curt Flood

#happy #i #life #make #my life

But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none. ↗

— Virgil

#greek #myth #mythology #the-aeneid #trojan

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