Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

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

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.

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

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 like mythology - anything historical.

I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

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!

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

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.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

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 think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

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.

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

Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The great achievements of Mesopotamian civilisation were pressed into the service of the Ba'athist regime.

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

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of Fa Mulan. The advantage of those stories over the contemporary ones is that they've had 2,000 years of editing. All the crap has been weeded out over time.

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.