The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
Thomas Henry HuxleyTags: science art rome ancient-greece despicable early-christianity greece jurisprudence political-science science-vs-religion
It was her last breakfast with Bapi, her last morning in Greece. In her frenetic bliss that kept her up till dawn, she’d scripted a whole conversation in Greek for her and Bapi to have as their grand finale of the summer. Now she looked at him contentedly munching on his Rice Krispies, waiting for the right juncture for launchtime.
He looked up at her briefly and smiled, and she realized something important. This was how they both liked it. Though most people felt bonded by conversation, Lena and Bapi were two of a kind who didn’t. They bonded by the routine of just eating cereal together.
She promptly forgot her script and went back to her cereal.
At one point, when she was down to just milk, Bapi reached over and put his hand on hers. ‘You’re my girl,’ he said.
And Lena knew she was.
Tags: language greece grandparent
… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
Yiannis RitsosLefty, who'd been observing all the ways Greece had been handed down to America, arrived now at where the transmission stopped. In other words: the future. He stepped off to meet it. Desdemona, having no alternative, followed.
Jeffrey EugenidesTags: greek greece desdemona lefty
Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
Nikos KazantzakisTags: greece
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
Tags: war death youth greece troy hubris
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
Gerald Durrellbrown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest.
Ioanna KarystianiSexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
Roman PayneTags: moon scholarship balance quote novel ancient-greece greece lifestyle europe ancient-greeks roman-payne novel-quote full-moon beauties cycles the-wanderess
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
HomerTags: wisdom fate death classics grief greece
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