Ancient Greeks

Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or greeks:

    “For who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods, a cruel and violent death shall be his fate, and never shall his soul find rest unto eternity. Such is the curse of Amon-Ra, king of all the gods.”
    —Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane (1905–1983)

    “We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)