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What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife, Penelope, a brilliant, resourceful woman who ends up in a terrible situation: in her husband's absence, she is being held hostage in her own home by men who claim to be courting her. She tries to make them leave, but because she's a woman they refuse, blaming their bad behavior on her desirability.

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I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

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There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is …

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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with fre…

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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pou…

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People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experience…

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We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

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Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

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Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

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He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

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