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James Theodore Bent Quotes

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.

James Theodore Bent
Believe, Healing, Flow

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

James Theodore Bent
Ocean, Islands, Sea

In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

James Theodore Bent
Ocean, Islands, Sea
"Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".

The most terrible things end, at last.

James Theodore Bent
Lasts, Ends, Terrible
James Theodore Bent (1885). “The Cyclades: Or, Life Among the Insular Greeks”, London, Longmans

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Theodore Bent
Strong, Belief, Newborn
James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut

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