Roderick Beaton > Quotes

“Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the Greek city-states of Sicily had been fighting off their rivals, the Carthaginians,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“not only for those who had lost their lives but also for the ‘liberty of Hellas”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“By the time Justinian died in 565, aged over eighty,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“in the full Assembly.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The people of the coastal lowlands have their own languages, related to Hittite.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“More Greeks actually fought on the Persian side against him than under his banner.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Order was not restored until the emperor and four of his five sons had been apprehended and their severed heads displayed to the crowd in the Hippodrome”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“It also meant that no state could legislate”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“there are many who date the end of ‘classical’ Greek civilisation to the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“a ship that sank in about 1300 BCE while on its way from the Levant via Cyprus towards the Mycenaean Aegean”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Sparta, by contrast, concentrated its power on land.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“on all sides during the 1060s:”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“the Antigonid kingdom of Macedonia also made an alliance with Hannibal.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“it has been estimated that the Iliad would have taken three full days to perform before an audience”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The conceptual shift that made it possible was even simpler than the application of binary mathematics to electrical circuits.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The Greek word barbaros at first just meant a foreigner who spoke a different language.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“their owners were Mycenaeans heading for home when their ship foundered off the headland in southern Turkey known as Uluburun,”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Caligula, probably did not, in reality, appoint his horse as consul but would still be murdered by his own guards”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“Carthage, in modern Tunisia, had grown from its origins as a Phoenician settlement”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“To make an example of them, Alexander had them sent back to Macedonia in chains”
― Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History

“The dynasty he founded, the Mauryans, would go on to dominate much of the Indian subcontinent.”
― 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