Greek Heroes Quotes

“You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes

“I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whore-mongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not far off the mark.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman

“Neleus...

The son of Poseidon!

A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman.

Not plain at all!

So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans!

From such a union two children were born, both boys.

Their mother placed them in a small boat, and dropped it into the sea.

The sea loved and saved them, children of Neptune were anyway!

The river itself is connected with the sea, fresh water with salt, the land and the sea...

"The sea herself guided us like legendary heroes into this new place ..".

It couldn't be differently.

Children of the Gods aren't we, our race? Have similar origin and similar history! Could not abandoned us, prey and exposed, like the two babies?”
― Katerina Kostaki, Το ταξίδι της ζωής φέρνει ελπίδες

“He'd been raised and trained by Chiron himself, the famous centaur who taught all the best Greek heroes. (Cough, me, cough.)”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

“There was nothing like working for clients who didn’t micromanage and left you alone to do what they’d paid you to do for them.”
― Ally Fleming, Intoxicated