Gnomon

by Nick Harkaway

For backup she has a telescoping baton, a mean little thing halfway between a cudgel and a whip.

You mean an asp?

It’s not always easy, being Greek. Even the mud has gods in it.

But the true Greece exists only in that other world. The Greece we inhabit now is a shadow. We must rediscover a way of being in which the divine is everywhere, in which we move through a world where theology is literally true. If we can do that, we will indeed return to the days of Plato and our greatness.”

That greatness only existed because it is eay to ignore the thousands of unPeople who had neither value nor voice to the few

She’s blamed for leading her husband into idolatry, but I rather think that just means she insisted he treat her with respect.