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Today, there is only one reason we know about Alexander and the enormous contribution he and the other Greeks made to modern life: the Egyptians and Arabs. The Arabs, untouched by Christianity through most of the Dark Ages, translated Greek literary works into Arabic and preserved them. The irony is inescapable- we in the West know our heritage only because the people we conquered preserved it for us.

they're likening zeus and ganymede to the monica lewinsky affair and i officially could not love this book more if i tried