Athens quotes

Who brings owls to Athens?

-Aristophanes
Avae ( The Birds), l.301. This ancient proverb, quoted by various authors, is the equivalent of 'to carry coals to Newcastle'.

Ye men of Athens,I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions,I found an altar with this inscription,. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

-Bible (NewTestament)
TOTHE UNKNOWN GODActs of the  Apostles17:22^3.

Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.

- (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie Campbell
  'Toledo,  July1936'.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits

-John Milton
Paradise Regained, bk.4, l.240^1.

Let there be light! Said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Hellas', l.682^4.