To be without music was, for the ancient Greeks, to be already dead... Ancient Greece was a culture of song. - Thomas Cahill

Though the poems of Homer and his successors were recorded, there will be no Greek reading public till we reach the fifth century B.C. ...There was instead, a hearing public that formed responsive audiences at festivals and contests.

The [Greek] myths were... attempting—at a deeper level—to feel the intangible and say the unsayable.

Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.