Christian literature cannot rightly be understood or judged without Greek literature, and neither can Greek literature without Christian literature.
Neque sine Graecis Christianae neque sine Christianis Graecae litterae recte aut intellegi aut aestimari possunt.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, October 10, 2004
Ancient Greek and Christian Literature
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, "De tragicorum Graecorum fragmentis commentatio," Index scholarum aestivum (Gottingae, 1893), p. 33: