Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

All ancient history is dark and uncertain.

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

I love Greek history. I love Roman history.

I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite. On the other hand, I like the Egyptian stories because they're not as commonly known and they have an exotic flavour.

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

Beyond Greek mythology, history just didn't have a strong resonation with me.

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.