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Peter Green
19 quotes
“Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander the Great (1970), p. 20
“... for the first time he [Philip] began to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism and aristocratic monarchy, so despised by the rest of Greece, might prove a source of strength when dealing with such opponents.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander the Great (1970), p. 24
“In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) first seen 323 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991), p. 32
“Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or ‘natural law’. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexander to be ‘a hegemon [leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants’.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) first seen 323 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991), p. 58
“Not once did I ever see such a striking resemblance, in either a man or a woman—it truly astounds me! This boy could be the son of great-hearted Odysseus, Tēlemachos, left as a newborn child in the house by him, when because of me, the bitch, you Achaians went out against Troy, hearts set on ruthless warfare.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard-hearted are you gods indeed, and jealous beyond all others, who resent any goddesses sleeping with mortal men openly, if they choose one such as their bedfellow! So it was when rose-fingered Dawn took up with Oriōn— you easy-living gods resented it, till at last in Ortygiē chaste Artemis, she of the golden throne, with her painless arrows assailed and killed him; so it was when fine-tressed Dēmētēr went with Iasiōn, gave in to her passion, lay down and mingled with him in thrice-plowed fallow soil; not long was it before Zeus learned of it and with his bright bolt hit and slew him.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Him she found on the seashore, sitting; nor were his eyes ever wiped dry of tears; sweet life was draining from him as he yearned to be home, since the nymph no longer pleased him.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve been harshly battered by countless waves, and aboard my ship I had no long-term care for my body, which is why my limbs are now very badly out of trim.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then limb from limb he tore them to prepare his supper, and devoured them like a mountain-bred lion, leaving nothing— innards and flesh, bones with the marrow in them, while we, lamenting, reached out our hands to Zeus at the sight of such bestial deeds.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The booby never perceived that under his rich-fleeced sheep there were men tied on!”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But as I went, and came close to my well-curved vessel, then, too, some god, seeing me alone, felt pity, and sent, right into my path, a huge high-antlered stag on his way from his forest range to drink at the river, since the sun’s strong heat had got to him. As he emerged, I speared him, in mid-back, piercing his spine: the bronze spear now transfixed him, he uttered a dying cry and collapsed in the dust. The spirit fled from him.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, while she was washing clothes near the hollow ship, one of them made love to her, a thing that fuddles the senses of truly feminine women, even one that’s well-behaved.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now prudent Penelopē made a fresh decision: to show herself to her suitors, so outrageous and arrogant; for she’d learnt in her halls of the plan to murder her son from Medōn the herald, who’d overheard their discussion.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“for not bloodless, I think, will be the final reckoning between that man and the suitors, once he’s made it home and is under his own roof.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had twenty geese round the house, they came up from the water and I fed them on wheat: the sight of them warmed my heart. But down from the mountain swooped a great eagle, with curved beak, broke all their necks and killed them. They lay scattered all over the hall, while the eagle soared up in the bright sky.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She climbed the high ladder that led to her own chamber, and with her strong hand picked up the neatly hooked key— bronze, finely wrought, with a fitted ivory handle”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the well-built altar of Zeus of Enclosures, on which Laërtēs and Odysseus had burnt in his honor so many thighs of oxen.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In their criminal folly they perpetrated a monstrous wrong, squandering the possessions and insulting the bedfellow of a most noble man, saying he would never return.”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man, Muse—tell me about that resourceful man, who wandered far and wide, when he’d sacked Troy’s sacred citadel: many men’s townships he saw, and learned their ways of thinking, many the griefs he suffered at heart on the open sea, battling for his own life and his comrades’ homecoming. Yet no way could he save his comrades, much though he longed to— it was through their own blind recklessness that they perished, the fools, for they slaughtered the cattle of Hēlios the sun god and ate them: for that he took from them their day of returning. Tell us this tale, goddess, child of Zeus; start anywhere in it!”
Peter Green (1924–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source