The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
– Gilbert Murray
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
– Gilbert Murray
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.