Greece

Explore 272 quotes by people from Greece

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Socrates. Quoted in "Περὶ φυγῆς [On Exile]." Written by Plutarch. Ἠθικά Ethika [Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

More information about this quote

Topic

Sex

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Plutarch. "Γαμικὰ παραγγέλματα [Advice to Bride and Groom]." Ἠθικά Ethika [The Moralia]. c. 100 AD.

Current Citation

Plutarch. "Advice to Bride and Groom." Moralia, translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1928.

For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest.

Aeschylus

Seven Against Thebes

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας [Seven Against Thebes]. c. 467 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. "Seven Against Thebes." The Persians and Other Plays, edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2010.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 1.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Plato. Νόμοι [Laws]. c. 346 BC, bk. 10.

Current Citation

Plato. Laws, translated by Tom Griffith, edited by Malcolm Schofield. Cambridge University Press, 2016, bk. 10.

Mere cleverness is not wisdom.

Euripides

Bacchae

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. The Bacchae. 405 BC, l. 395.

Current Citation

Euripides. "The Baccae." Euripedes V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus, translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013, l. 395.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 2.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. Speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption. 399 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Plutarch. "Agesilaus." Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. c. 2nd century.

Current Citation

Plutarch. "Agesilaus." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pyrrho. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 9, ch. 11, sect. 72.

Current Citation

Pyrrho. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk 9, ch. 11, sect. 72.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Sophocles. Αἴας [Ajax]. c. 441 BCE, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Ajax." Electra and Other Plays, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2008.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Fragment 221. c. 450 BC.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. Fragments, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Harvard University Press, 2009, fragment 221.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aristophanes. Λυσιστράτη [Lysistrata]. c. 411 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "Lysistrata." Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2008.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pythagoras. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 8, ch. 1, sect. 10.

Current Citation

Pythagoras. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 8, ch. 1, sect. 10.

More information about this quote

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Θεαίτητος [Theaetetus], written by Plato. c. 369 BC.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Theaetetus, written by Plato, translated by John McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2014.