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The Children of Athena. Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 250 BC - 400 AD

by Charles Freeman (Goodreads Author)

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“And if history has taught us anything, it is that women making a noise – whether speaking or shouting – tend to be viewed as intrinsically disruptive.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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“The distance is unbearable if you let yourself dwell on it.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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“Every myth contains multiple timelines within itself: the time in which it is set, the time it is first told, and every retelling afterwards. Myths may be the home of the miraculous, but they are also mirrors of us. Which version of a story we choose to tell, which characters we place in the foreground, which ones we allow to fade into the shadows: these reflect both the teller and the reader, as much as they show the characters of the myth. We have made space in our storytelling to rediscover women who have been lost or forgotten. They are not villains, victims, wives and monsters: they are people.”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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