History

The Acropolis

The Acropolis and the Parthenon.

"It is the greatest houses and the tallest trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves."

-- Herodotus (circa 450 BCE).

"Hope ... which whispered from Pandora's box only after all other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion ..."

-- Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason, The Rule Of Four

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short,
the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the
superlative degree of comparison only...

-- A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens.

History

"It is the greatest houses and the tallest trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves." -- Herodotus (circa 450 BCE).

"It is the greatest houses and the tallest trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves."

-- Herodotus (circa 450 BCE).