299 Quotes About Greek

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical method of exegesis. By this, as Erdmann observes, the Bible narrative was found to contain a deeper, and particularly an allegorical interpretation, in addition to its literal interpretation; this was not conscious disingenuousness but a natural mode of amalgamating the Greek philosophic with the Hebraic doctrines.

Come back with your shield - or on it

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

What happened here is that the Greek team wrote soccer history.

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

(Greek) Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and then, you know, we're part of an acting tradition and, and performance capture is no different.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.