Eureka! Quotes

“Excessive consumption was not seen as a desirable sign of membership of an elite, but as a warning: it was wealth for the benefit not of the city but of the individual, and it threatened to impoverish him too. Even more dangerously, if wealthy individuals clubbed together, who knew what damage they could inflict?...Wealth could too easily pervert one's judgement.”
― Peter Jones, Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask

“The Greeks would have found nothing democratic about our parliament, which fights popular scrutiny tooth and nail and where failed ministers, at the end of their term of office, far from being held to public account, are waved off to the House of Lords.”
― Peter Jones, Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask