Roderick Beaton > Quotes

“Among them was Polybius, who would spend the next twenty years of his life there,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“and be merry, for tomorrow we die’.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“res publica, literally ‘the thing belonging to the people’, and the origin of the modern term republic.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“a ‘dust-veil event’, that caused temporary disruptions to the climate over large parts of the world.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Every polis had its own constitution, and every constitution was different in points of detail.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the only other force that might have exerted a compelling authority over a polis would have been religion.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“they did so by invitation of the pharaoh.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“into their hands and enslaved the children and women.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself’, declares Paul in one of his most frequently quoted sentences.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Thebes had gained the upper hand, for joining forces with the enslaved helots of Messenia”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Athens and the Greek peninsula marked the western limit of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Many of the most characteristic Macedonian names are transparently formed from Greek words.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“There was never a political entity of that name until 1821, when Greek subjects of the Ottoman Empire raised”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Mycenaean traders at the time were exchanging goods all over the Mediterranean.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“episodes of the war”
― 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