And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.
I love Greek history. I love Roman history.
If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.
I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.