Athens Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2 Athens Quotes
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“Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)
“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)