"Just as the Greeks in their beginnings benefited from multiple relations with the culture of earlier civilizations, w…"

"His imagination possesses a force that does not stop at the surface, but pursues things in the depths of their essenc…"

"No Greek had the power of Cicero: because no Greek could impress on the abstract concepts of philosophy the impulse o…"

"In short, Virgil performed the miracle of making heroic poetry flourish from the bosom of a mature conscience, nouris…"