Bettany Hughes Quotes & Sayings

So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day. — Bettany Hughes

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it. — Bettany Hughes

For the Spartans, it wasn't walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war! — Bettany Hughes