Alcaeus Quotes

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

I'm a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great history behind it. I definitely carry that in my job, and I am very passionate.

Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon.

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

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

Greece – the mother of all democracies

There are two great centers of Hellenism. Athens is the capital of the Kingdom. Constantinople is the great capital, the City, the dream and hope of all Greeks.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

I love Greece. It's really cool in the summer.

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.

Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.