Roderick Beaton > Quotes

“The city is known to the Hittites as Millawanda and will later enter Greek history under the name Miletus.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The campaign that cost Julian his life was part of a series of wars on the empire’s eastern frontier”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the temples on the Acropolis and the recently completed Theatre of Dionysus.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“if the Persian fleet was left intact to sail round and take the infantrymen from the rear.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the word ‘stoical’ has entered the languages of today to describe patient endurance in the face of suffering.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Of the Melian population the Athenians executed all the grown men”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Philip (‘Horse-Loving’), Cleopatra (‘Father’s Fame’), Ptolemy (‘Warlike”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Philip won the day. As many as half the Athenians and Thebans were either killed or taken prisoner.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“of member-states from enlisting in foreign armies.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“you could beach your ship wherever you could find a sandy shore, put up your tent,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“burst westwards and southwards towards Europe and the settled lands of the Middle East.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. These include statues of Egyptian gods”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“In the absence of the principle of hereditary rule,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the island’s legendary king, Minos, when its remains are discovered three and a half millennia later.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“After the death of Commodus in 192 CE, civil war and empire-wide chaos lasted,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The Greek inhabitants are very rich in gold and precious stones,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the ‘decline and fall of the Roman empire’ began with the death of Marcus”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“What language the people here speak, or what name they give to the place, will not be recorded for posterity.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Flamininus was as good at his word. The legions departed. It was now up to the Greek city-states to manage their own affairs”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Modern stereotypes brand Epicureans as seekers after sensual pleasure, often associated with the motto, ‘Eat, drink,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“tempted by Hannibal’s offer to ensure the ‘liberty of the Hellenes”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“when the stadium at Olympia was enlarged in the fifth century BCE, it could accommodate a crowd of forty thousand”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Tin, an essential ingredient of bronze, most probably came from Afghanistan, via the Levant coast.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Buried with them was a fearsome array of swords, daggers, and spearpoints”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The Semitic signs were given names that served as mnemonics for the respective sounds: alf, bet, and so on.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“539, great numbers of them, called ‘Huns’ by Procopius, crossed the Danube”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“This is the kingdom of the Hittites.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History