The Greek Histories Quotes

“Overjoyed at the public recognition of their achievement, their mother stood before the statue of the goddess and prayed to her to grant Cleobis and Biton, the sons who had brought her such honor, the greatest blessing that can befall mortals. After her prayer, when they had sacrificed and feasted, the two sons lay down to sleep in the temple and never rose again. They”
― Mary R. Lefkowitz, The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch

“they engage our emotions and our moral sense in the same way that the epic poems of Homer do, for indeed those poems, the Iliad in particular, were the primary model with which the first Greek historian, Herodotus, worked.”
― Mary R. Lefkowitz, The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch