Ancient World Quotes

“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“So, she had the right to love and cherish as well as take part in battles if that became necessary.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“May the Gods give us girls the victory despite our men!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“In order to command, a man must firstly know how to and be able to fulfill orders when he is commanded!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“I do not and will not have my life dictated to me by someone else, even if the person doing it is you, my father!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“She is rapidly gaining appreciation from other Cherusci women as their leader, and her ability as a warrior is so great that even the male warriors envy her!”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“Truth-telling is a delicate dance between exposure and imposture, a dance whose steps I’m beginning to learn. When Theodora found me in the scriptorium, I was twenty-one. Still young, but I’d seen enough to feel old.”
― Carol Strickland, The Eagle and the Swan

“In one way, it feels like six lifetimes, and yet I clearly recall my days of running along the beach of the Tarsus coast with my sisters, playing hide-and-seek behind the dunes.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“The true love story of Thusnelda and Armin began to flower.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”
― S.F. Chandler, We the Great Are Misthought

“Like Hebrew, Greek is an emotional language—a language of the heart. Latin, not as much.”
― Lin Wilder, My Name is Saul: A Novel of the Ancient World

“Classics is a subject that exists in that gap between us and the word of the Greeks and Romans. The questions raised by Classics are the questions raised by our distance from 'their' world, and at the same time by our closeness to it, and its familiarity to us. In our museums, in our literature, languages, culture, and ways of thinking. The aim of Classics is not only to discover or uncover the ancient world (though that is part of it, as the rediscovery of Bassae, or the excavation of the furthest outposts of the Roman empire on the Scottish borders, shows). Its aim is to also define and debate our relationship to that world.”
― Mary Beard, Classics: A Very Short Introduction

“Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.”
― Alice K. Turner, The History of Hell

“Ancient historians lied. Modern historians play Chinese whispers. Now, it's time to tell you the true story of Lamia and her Knight - from the Garden of Eden to Ancient Rome.”
― Anna Canić

“Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared as nothing out of the ordinary, other than that it lay in the middle of nowhere.
That was the view on the surface. Beneath the water existed an entirely alien world.”
― Jennifer McKeithen, Atlantis: On the Shores of Forever

“Wolf man, I have warned you. I will turn those things you call Maenads on you. Perhaps getting your limbs ripped off will bring you to your senses.”
― Kelley Heckart, The Wolf Queen

“We wouldn't expect to gather crucial information about modern cultures from their knives, forks, hammers, and screwdrivers, so why should we suddenly set different standards when we try to understand the ancient world?”
― Graham Hancock, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

“Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“CLEOPATRA SPEAKS:
I conquered Caesar
yet was slain by Rome
Last true Queen of Egypt

It is not Antony
I speak from cold lips

I whisper, Ô mighty Egypt
Ô mighty Nile
into your glory, I give my spirit”
― Ramon William Ravenswood, Icons Speak