Roderick Beaton > Quotes

“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

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

“Anywhere else on the coasts of the Mediterranean,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Macedonia, in other words, was rapidly becoming Greek.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Crete is home to an advanced civilisation that will be dubbed ‘Minoan’,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“a new centre of power and wealth has been making its mark farther north, and closer to the Aegean,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“and would again, found it expedient to comply.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“This is the kingdom of the Hittites.”
― 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

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

“The Romans had expelled their last king in 509 BCE.”
― 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

“were in charge and known as the Antigonids.”
― 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

“the temples on the Acropolis and the recently completed Theatre of Dionysus.”
― 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 Greek-speaking Roman Empire after the death of Heraclius in 641 had turned into the Byzantine.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“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

“This can only have been the initiative of a single individual, because it happened only once,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the way to truth was through the exercise of reason and rational judgement.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Having left not one of them alive, they stripped the temple of its treasures and burnt everything on the Acropolis.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History