Greatest Greek Quotes

#1. It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

Ed Ayres

#2. You should know by now that love is never a weakness, Ares. Love is the mortal world's greatest strength.

Gina Ardito

#3. Certainly, one of the greatest achievements of the human intellectual spirit was the Arabic Translation Movement. Over the course of about 100 years, virtually the entire Greek Scientific and philosophical corpus was either translated or summarized into Arabic (McGinnis, 10).

Jon McGinnis

#4. Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

Moses Finley

#5. The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple.

Rudolf Steiner

#6. The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken. (pg. 125)

Ellen F. Davis

#7. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence.

Plato

#8. Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was

Will Durant