Very different conditions of life confronted them from those we face, but it is ever to be borne in mind that though the outside of human life change… - Edith Hamilton

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

We are to think (of the dead) that they pass into a better place and a happier condition.

Abject submission to the power on the throne which had been the rule of life in the ancient world since kings began, and was to be the rule of life in Asia for centuries to come, was cast off by the Greeks so easily, so lightly, hardly more than an echo of the contest has come down to us.

PHOEBUS APOLLO The son of Zeus and Leto (Latona), born in the little island of Delos. He has been called “the most Greek of all the gods.” He is a beautiful figure in Greek poetry, the master musician who delights Olympus as he plays on his golden lyre;