"Within the shady grove we chanced to peep, And caught Cythera’s rosy boy asleep: None of his brave artillery had he, …"

"Thou gazest on the stars: Would I might be, O star of mine, the skies With myriad eyes To gaze on thee."

"Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair light had fled;— Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, gi…"

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"

"Our history of philosophy can only be the Greco-Roman-Christian one. We know neither the time of formation nor any ki…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"

"We have no texts explaining the rites and ceremonial of the Dionysiac mysteries in the Greco-Etrusco-Roman world, alt…"

"Common resistance and sacrifice in the face of a profoundly alien invader had begun, however slowly and imperfectly, …"

"O sons of the Greeks, go on! Free your fatherland, and free your children, your wives, and the shrines of your patern…"

"The great conflict between Greece and Persia – or, to be more accurate, between a handful of states in mainland Greec…"