Rob Van Dam Quotes

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

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

I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

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

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

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

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.

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

I love Greek history. I love Roman history.

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 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.'

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

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

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.

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?'

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

The Romans learned about crucifixion from the Greeks, although they noted that many of the ‘barbarian’ races (Indians, Assyrians, Scythians, and Celts) also used it.

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

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

I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and as far afield as the Great Wall of China. With the restless curiosity and meticulous scholarship that have become her hallmark, the author once again has found a gap in my bookshelf and filled it, admirably.

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.