Antiquity at Troynovant:
inspirations from ancient times,
largely of the Classical world & worldview —
base & noble people, events, ideas;
listed by Title
  

Many references and allusions to the Classical civilizations of Greece and Rome are not indexed here, let alone the plentitude of other lights of ancient days which help illumine byways through our Troynovant.
  

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Note  (1874)
in The Portable Nietzsche
  

  
What's in the brain that ink may character
Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit? ...

So that eternal love in love's fresh case
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
But makes antiquity for aye his page,
   Finding the first conceit of love there bred
   Where time and outward form would show it dead.

William Shakespeare
Sonnets, 108

  
The attitude of city-state Greeks to this sub-Homeric enclave was one of genial and sophisticated contempt. They regarded Macedonians in general as semi-savages, uncouth of speech and dialect, retrograde in their political institutions, negligible as fighters, and habitual oath-breakers, who dressed in bear-pelts and were much given to deep and swinish potations, tempered with regular bouts of assassination and incest.

In a more benevolent mood, Athenians would watch the attempts of the Argead court [of Macedon] to Hellenize itself with the patronizing indulgence of some blue-blooded duke called upon to entertain a colonial sugar-baron.

Peter Green
"Philip of Macedon"
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.:
A Historical Biography  (1970; 1974; 1991)