Attic Inscriptions

Famous quotes containing the words attic and/or inscriptions:

“It was all smoke, and no salt, Attic or other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

““Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)