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.

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

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.

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

The most terrible things end, at last.