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“Give up the girl? I swear she will grow old
at home in Argos, far from her own country,
working my loom and visiting my bed.”
― The Iliad
at home in Argos, far from her own country,
working my loom and visiting my bed.”
― The Iliad
“The appeal of history to us all is in the last analysis poetic.”
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’, Intentions (1891)”
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
― The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History
“What shall I tell Mother?” The boy continued. "Tell her you have seen a broken-hearted woman cast off by her son.”
― The Return of the Native
― The Return of the Native
“who governs a kingdom vast, proud and strong — who upholds justice, true, and the black earth bears wheat and barley, trees bow down with fruit and the sheep drop lambs and never fail and the sea teems with fish —thanks to his decent, upright rule, and under his sovereign sway the people flourish.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
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