A Classical Education Quotes

“What mostly happens in the Iliad is that Achilles has a hissy fit because Agamemnon has stolen a slave girl of his, sulks in his tent for eight books and spends the ninth telling Agamemnon he’s had enough and he’s going home.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

“Accents must have been pretty important in Ancient Greek, because a man called Herodian wrote a treatise in twenty-one books about them, most of which, you’ll be happy to know, are now lost.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

“alea iacta est: ‘the die is cast’.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

“The other story about Midas is that he was called upon to judge between the music of Pan and Apollo and found in favour of Pan. Apollo, understandably annoyed (he was, after all, god of music, whereas Pan was merely god of shepherds and tootled on the odd pipe in his spare time), punished Midas by making a pair of ass’s ears sprout from his head.”
― Caroline Taggart, A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School