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Emily Squires
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For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.
“But it must be conceded that as Persia grew in power and status, it exponentially required and desired slaves to make the imperial system work.”
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
“I had heard them gossip of others often enough; rumors were the only coin the boys had to trade in.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“If he had shown any hesitation or surprise, I would have left, gone back and slept on the bare reeds rather than stay here. But he did not. There was only his easy tone and a sharp attention in his eyes.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Often they were too ashamed to show their faces and knew they would be treated as outcasts. Or their own families had sold them into slavery in the first place.”
― The Whistleblower
― The Whistleblower
“In 538 bce he decreed that the temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt at his own expense and that the treasures plundered from the sacred sanctuary by Nebuchadnezzar should be returned to the house of God. The captive Jews (like all other foreign deportees) were free to go home.”
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
― Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
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