And not merely something from the Bard, or those wheezy old Greeks.

No, not quite impartially, perhaps, for the old Greeks and others were examples to the contrary.

Mr. Schwarzenegger there, outlined against the sky, indeed looks like something the old Greeks would have gone nuts over.

The old Greeks summoned godlike things to worship their god.

For the friendship of men he had that genius which the old Greeks have idealised'.

"Did you know that the old Greeks shipped wine in cone shells?"

The old Greeks had a word for it, just as they had a word for most things.

I feel about 'em the way the old Greeks felt about slaves.

I tell you, Matt, those old Greeks knew it all.

The old Greeks had a saying that until a man is dead, do not yet call him happy, call him lucky.