Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

No, it’s all Greek to me.

Very good, Jason Grace,” Notus said. “You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you...

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

I made ‘Going Greek’, which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

…She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild...

His eyes danced like a teenager. “Eat anyone alive today?” her father joked.Ruby returned his wicked grin and sauntered into the living room. “Not today, but tomorrow’s another day.

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I’m out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun…

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you’ve got none,Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin’ Greeks.

Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, “May we ever be united in love and hidden as long as this stone hides...

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an...

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian...

White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides …

Sometime later, I stood watching the cold rain fall, when suddenly I felt Daemon’s arms around me and his lips on my neck. He loved my pregnant body and his hands roamed over it under...

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the...

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world...

If I was a Greek citizen I’d be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

I remembered Daemon’s feather soft kisses on my cheek, and I remembered the clouds parting and the sun shining on a cold February day in Ireland. And as my baby girl was laid on my...

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no attention.Of...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel...

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Stunned by how little he’d gotten over her and she’d gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he’d never had to understood before, how easily life can...

I have not been nourished by English Literature. . . for the simple reason that I have never found much there in which to rest my heart (or heart and head together). I was brought...

I’m a damsel, I’m in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day!

The future science of government should be called ‘la cybernétique’ (1843){Coining the French word to mean ‘the art of governing,’ from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Wiener...

I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic.”That REALLY didn’t sound good.”What do you mean?” I asked. “what OTHER GODS?””I don’t know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians...

As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that your journey be a long one,filled with adventure, filled with discovery.Laestrygonians and Cyclopes,the angry Poseidon–do not fear them:you’ll never find such things on your wayunless...

I’ve been waiting for you,” he murmured.Aphrodite slowly walked across the balcony, as her mind raced, trying to think of the perfect thing to say in return. All of a sudden a thought came to...

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

Call no man happy until he is dead.

You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of...

She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach’s Air on the G string.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.

If you look up ‘atheism’ in the dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God. Certainly many people understand atheism in this way. Yet many atheists do not,...