Archaeology and Art History Roman Republic and Augustan Age
“The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.” Cicero
Homeric Poems
“Cyclops, try this wine—flesh of the grape, it is— just see what stock we carried in our hold. This was the drink I planned to offer you, hoping you would receive me, treat me well, and speed me home. But you rage on, unbearable, madman that you are.”
Classical Hellenistic Architecture and Art History
“And he who would proceed rightly should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms and first, if directed by his instructor, to love one such form only—out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will himself perceive that the beauty of any bodily form is akin to the beauty of another; and then if beauty in general is his pursuit, how foolish would he be not to recognize that the beauty in all visible forms is one and the same!”
Sophocles
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole. Matthew Arnold on Sophocles.
Bible and the History of Political Thought
The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the teachers of the law.
Pre-Socratics
δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης. A man never steps in the same river twice.
Oracle at Delphi
“Though all else shall be taken, yet shall Zeus grant to the sight A wooden wall that shall not fall; and this shall save you and your children.”