The Catalogue of Ships in the second book of Homer's Iliad names the places in Greece that committed ships and troops to the siege of Troy
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The 9.91 would have been a fifth-place finish in the last Olympics in Athens, Greece. He's smoking.
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The situation in Greece was very specific, very political, which explained what happened. We tried to change the [venue] situation in the course of the preparation of the games but it was too late. I'm convinced we are not going to face the same problems we had in Athens.
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He said, 'If I ever win the lottery, I would see the world. I want to go to France and Greece.' He wanted to go everywhere.
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After the Greek war of independence, Greek national identity started becoming more and more founded on the ruins and on the national pride of an archaeological past, this wonderful civilization right where they grew up.. In their own backyard. People can identify with them much more in Greece.
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The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West Indies, or better still for Paris, from which they could scatter to Majorca, Corsica, Capri or the isles of Greece. Paris itself was a modern city that seemed islanded in the past, and there were island countries, like Mexico, where Americans could feel that they had escaped from everything that oppressed them in a business civilization. Or without leaving home they could build themselves private islands of art or philosophy; or else - and this was a frequent solution - they could create social islands in the shadow of the skyscrapers, groups of close friends among whom they could live as unconstrainedly as in a Polynesian valley, live without moral scruples or modern conveniences, live in the pure moment, live gaily on gin and love and two lamb chops broiled over a coal fire in the grate. That was part of the Greenwich Village idea, and soon it was being copied in Boston, San Francisco, everywhere.
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But there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
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And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
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When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours. To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.
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Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
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Life keeps changing without giving a damn about our personal feelings.
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Life - with or without softener- is hard
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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
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[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.
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