Ancient Literature Quotes:

I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid Dido and send her to school. But it's great for me now. It's just another thing that makes me stand out.

- Dido Armstrong

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: School, Kids, Ancient Literature, Dido

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the courtiers of cultured princes. These might take the form of chess games in which the pieces and squares had secret meanings in addition to their usual functions.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Wise, Squares, Games, Courtiers, Ancient Literature

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

- Daniel B. Wallace

topic: Creative, Criticism, Literature, Wording, Reconstructing

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

- Elie Wiesel

source: Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

topic: Trying, Doe, Way, Ancient Literature, Prophetic

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.

- Dennis McKinsey

topic: Jesus, Real, Believe, Ancient Literature

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

- F. F. Bruce

topic: Literature, World, Body, Ancient Literature

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

topic: Religious, Science, Men, Ancient Literature

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Literature, Want, Ancient, Ancient Literature

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

- Sam Harris

topic: Christian, People, Humanity, Brokers, Omniscient