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“To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered,”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra

“Atlantis?' Jason asked.
'That's a myth,' Percy said.
'Uh...don't we deal in myths?'
'No, I mean it's a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.'

'So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus