Author: Gilbert Murray

Quotes

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

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

- Gilbert Murray

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

- Gilbert Murray

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

- Gilbert Murray

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

- Gilbert Murray

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