Gilbert Murray

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.