Status Updates From The Philosopher Kings

"But nobody who enslaves another can truely be free" - I quite like this quote because if you think about it the mind of the capture can be consumed by the thoughts of the captive.

"The boys areright. they are men, and heroes, and they have to act as they think best." - She just called them boys and then she uses the word 'men'. Which could show she doesn't truely see them as men?

"I wish I understood why she wouldn't let me heal her. It might all make more sense if I could understand that." - Death always brings the 'what ifs' into play.

Apollo is just sad and I don't like his character in this book.

"Her absence was like a presence, but Father's grief was like a huge sucking whirlpool that threatened to sweep everything up and carry it away."

I really like this quote.

"There were women trained in logic who were prepared to argue that they didn't deserve citizenship, and that they were inferior to men." (P46) - This was a really interesting point that was made and I'm curious on what would the agruments be like and how it would have been explored.

“They have social classes,” I said.
“Yes,” Ficino agreed.
“And money. And wealth and poverty.”
“They started with adults who knew those things,” [he] said. “That must have made it difficult.”
“Are they pursuing excellence?” I asked.

At that time Delos floated on the water, but afterward it was attached to the sea-bed like other lands—or this is the story recounted in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo. (Father says it’s poetically true, whatever that means.)