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"And the essence of Greek worship and piety lay in giving honour to the godhead : to be pious is 'to honour the divinity'. To honor both gods and men for their areté is a primitive instinct."

"Christian sentiment will regard any claim to honor, any self-advancement, as an expression of sinful vanity. The Greeks, however, believed such ambition to be the aspiration of the individual towards that ideal and supra-personal sphere in which alone he can have real value. Thus it is true in some sense to say that the areté of a hero is completed only in his death."

"The Greek trinity of poet, statesman, and sage (ποιητής, πολιτικός, σοφός) embodied the nation's highest ideal of leadership. In that atmosphere of spiritual liberty, bound by deep knowledge (as if by a divine law) to the service of the community, the Greek creative genius conceived and attained that lofty educational ideal. . ."

"Other nations made gods, kings, spirits : the Greeks alone made men."