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'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his
Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more
than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit
of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge
involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see
from those expressions of Homer prefaced by the phrase 'as people
say'. Homer, the Seven Sages and the Pre-Socratic philosophers are
still extensively quoted in all the major western languages. Yet
for all their popularity, until now there has been no single
resource to which interested readers might turn. This unique
reference book offers one of the most comprehensive selections of
Greek quotations ever committed to print. With its English text
matched by the original Greek, the volume collects 7500 entries,
ranging from the archaic period to late antiquity, and across
philosophy, drama, poetry, history, science and medicine, each
indexed with key words to enable fast sourcing. Together, these
selections provide an incomparable insight into the glories of
Greek civilization.
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