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History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Any period is fascinating: the more ancient, the better.

People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn't, then it just didn't exist for many classicists and ancient historians.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.