Roderick Beaton > Quotes

“For the time being, the newcomers could bask with impunity.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Paul’s letters have almost nothing to say about Jesus as a historical figure, about his life, or about the content”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The royal bodyguard, ordered by Philip to hang back for the occasion, followed at a discreet distance.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Philip was ideally suited to lead the expedition against the Persian ‘barbarians’.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“And all officeholders, whether chosen by lot or elected, were held closely to account.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The previous year, Philip had married for the seventh time,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The standard Greek terms for these would soon become established as, respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“For Socrates, the goal of all human beings was arete.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“compelling the Spartans to grant them their liberty as an autonomous city-state?”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

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

“When Helen deserted her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta, and eloped with the handsome Trojan prince Paris,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Modern historians regularly use the word empire to describe this extension of Athenian power during the fifth century”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“was through the narrow pass known as Thermopylae, where the crags of Mount Oeta fell”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised the flag of revolution”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“There was never a political entity of that name until 1821,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“A dynastic alliance with Epiros would neutralise a potential threat to his rear while he was away campaigning in Asia.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“But five years later, the Romans were back. This time it was the Seleucid king Antiochus III (the Great),”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Ares personified war, Dionysus the emotions and intoxication, Hermes trickery.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The war lasted ten years, so the story goes.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Others may have been burnt alive.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the urban space was dominated by the imposing rock known as the Acropolis”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The name means ‘hot gates’, referring to a fortified position which contained thermal springs.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The fate of Melos was by no means the only atrocity recorded by Thucydides”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“couple of hundred miles to the north and slightly to the west, the strait known as the Dardanelles”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The frontiers of the Greek state as we know it today mostly date from as recently as 1913.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Usually translated as ‘goodness’ or ‘virtue’,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic, or New Stone Age.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History