319 Quotes About Greek-mythology

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

-Gian-Carlo Rota

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

-Virgil

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that’s why. They were terminally bored.

-Michael Faust

  • Author John Gray
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    Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.

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Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies. If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life.

-John Gray

There was something beautiful about his scars, something lovely about his fallibility.

-Grace Curley

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me.Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you.Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever the please." Antigone to Theben's king Creon

-Sophocles

I should have praise and honor for what I have done: All these men here would praise me.Were their lips not frozen shut with fear of you.Ah the good fortune of kings. Licensed to say and do whatever they please." Antigone to Theben's king Creon

-Sophocles

  • Author Madeline Miller
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    Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

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Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

-Madeline Miller

I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

-Amanda Carlson

 

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