5 quotes found
“In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked the zone of every...”
“The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.”
“Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?”
“Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the f...”
“There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would slide ov...”