Gilbert Murray Greek Quotations

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.