José Carlos Ramos Castillo

“this book what it is.”
― Anonymous, The Tale of the Heike

“The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides’ account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) – where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.”
― Hippocrates, Hippocratic Writings

“God left all men free; Nature has made no man a slave.’ (Anonymous, in Rhetorica Aristotelis, CAG XXI: 2, p. 74 Rabe) This, remarkably, is the only surviving testimony to what must have been a fairly widespread sophistic thesis, that slavery is contrary to nature (referred to disapprovingly by Aristotle at Politics 1253b20ff.).”
― John M. Dillon, The Greek Sophists

“READING HOMER’S POEMS is one of the purest, most inexhaustible pleasures life has to offer—a secret somewhat too well kept in our time.”
― Eva Brann, Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad