Greece

🇬🇷Plutarch

Philosophy

"Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares."

🇬🇷Pappus of Alexandria

Mathematics

"He spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought."

🇬🇷Gregory_Thaumaturgus

Religion

"Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death."

🇬🇷Iamblichus

Philosophy

Neoplatonism

"Iamblichus articles in the Encyclopedia of the Goddess Athena."

🇬🇷Irenaeus

Religion

"It is not necessary to seek truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church."

🇬🇷Yanni

Music

b. 1954

"I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us."

🇬🇷Demosthenes

Politics

-384–-322

"It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery."

🇬🇷Apollonius of Tyana

Philosophy

neopythagoreanism

15–100

"I saw the Indian Brahmans living on the earth and not on it, walled without walls, and with no possessions except the whole world."

🇬🇷Simonides of Ceos

Business

-555–-468

"Simonides, Elegies: second century AD Photos of fragments"

🇬🇷Aeschines

Politics

-389–-314

"Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"

🇬🇷Stobaeus

Literature

430–470

"Diogenes, on being sold as a slave at Corinth, was asked by the auctioneer what he could do. "Rule men," he replied. "Do you suppose," asked the other, "that people want to buy masters?"

🇬🇷Parmenides

Philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy

-514–-469

"There is one story left, one road: that it is. And on this road there are very many signs that, being, is uncreated and imperishable, whole, unique, unwavering, and complete."

🇬🇷Vangelis

Music

1943–2022

"On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest"

🇬🇷Yanis Varoufakis

Economics

b. 1961

"While bringing about radical change is never easy, it is now abundantly clear that everything could be different. There is no longer any reason why we should accept things as they are."

🇬🇷Arrian

Philosophy

stoicism

"Arrian mentions with admiration that every Indian is free. With them, as with the Lacedemonians, he says, no native can be a slave; but unlike the Lacedemonians, they keep no other people in servitude."

🇬🇷Bias of Priene

Law

-599–-529

"Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation; but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness."

🇬🇷Callimachus

Literature

-305–-239

"The most outstanding intellect of this generation, the greatest poet that the Hellenistic age produced, and historically one of the most important figures in the development of Graeco-Roman literature."

🇬🇷Pericles

Politics

b. 1954

"Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire … Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go."

🇬🇷Eleftherios Venizelos

Politics

1910–1928

"All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire...Greece will never see me again."

🇬🇷Eusebius of Caesarea

Religion

260–340

"While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman."

🇬🇷Giorgos Seferis

Politics

Thirties Generation

1900–1971

"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

🇬🇷Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

1913–1975

"From the balance of the past, we have been lea to the great injustice of the present."

🇬🇷Protagoras

Philosophy

sophism

-489–-419

"Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not."

🇬🇷Antisthenes

Philosophy

Cynicism

-444–-364

"Diogenes Laërtius, Life of Antisthenes, translated by Robert Drew Hicks"

🇬🇷Euclid Tsakalotos

Politics

b. 1960

"I cannot hide from you that I am quite nervous. I am not taking on this job at the easiest point in Greek history."

🇬🇷El Greco

Art

Mannerism

1541–1614

"170 images of El Greco's paintings, on Wikiart"

🇬🇷Ioannis Kapodistrias

Politics

1776–1831

"Georgios Tertsetis, "Kolokotronis' Memoirs", "Apologa about Capodistrias"

"Father and son you might liken to caterpillars and locusts, for what was left by Robert, his son fed on and devoured."

🇬🇷Xenophon

Military

"Yet is it more honourable, and just, and upright, and pleasing, to treasure in the memory good acts than bad."

🇬🇷Epicharmus of Kos

Philosophy

Old Comedy

-539–-447

"I have no desire to die, but I count my death as nothing."

🇬🇷Alexis Tsipras

Politics

b. 1974

"Homepage of Alexis Tsipras, 2014 candidature for European Commission President"

🇬🇷Theognis of Megara

Literature

-569–-484

"The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble."

🇬🇷Aristotle Onassis

Music

1906–1975

"They want new blood, not new money. Rainier have to stop caring about matain his dick wet all the time and consider himself like a princess that has to liven up the party."

🇬🇷Theodoros Kolokotronis

Politics

1770–1843

"Greeks, God has signed our Liberty and will not go back on his promise."

🇬🇷Xenophanes

Philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy

-569–-477

"Xenophanes of Colophon" by Giannis Stamatellos"

🇬🇷John Stuart Blackie

Education

1809–1895

"Order is the law of all intelligible existence."

🇬🇷Anaxagoras

Science

Pre-Socratic philosophy

-499–-427

"Translation and Commentary from John Burnet's Early Greek Philosophy."