30 Quotes by Adam Nicolson

The most intriguing aspect of the Hawara Homer, and other papyri of the same era, is how close they are to the text of Homer as it was transmitted to the Byzantine scholars who were assembling the Venetus A manuscript eight hundred years later.

You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.

Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?