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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age

by William Manchester

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Sep 08, 2023 09:03AM

“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has a history, and a bias.”
― Helen Morales, Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

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“In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

tags: ajax, classics, greek, humans, intelligence, metamorphoses, mythology, roman, ulysses

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“It was important for a Roman of this period to get his Greek
mythology right. Being able to identify who was who and what was what was a sign that the viewer was a person of culture and status.”
― Helen Morales, Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction

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