The Greeks Us

Greek Identity of the Western World

Ortega y Gassett
The birth of the city

Freud
A therapeutic use of dreams
The wish-fulfilment of Oedipus

Henry James
Noble quietude

Jules Verne
One vast archipelago on the moon

Chesterton
Sanity and imagination

Arnold Toynbee
Ancient Greek History and the West

William James
An adventurous universe

Rider Haggard
The sound of the rolling lines seemed to make my blood stand still

Thomas Hardy
He wished he had never seen a book

Helen Keller
The length, breadth and sweep of heavens are mine!

Robert Silverberg
Sailing to Byzantium

Let him be sought in whom everything is secure to us, let him be discovered in whom everything is certain to us, let him be loved in whom everything is right to us. - St. Augustine

Cf.  Aspects of Byzantium in Modern Popular Music
Constantinople Home Page : Constantinople and the West ||| Greek History
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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