Whatever we experience in our day, whatever we hope to learn, whatever we most desire, whatever we set out to find, we see that the Greeks have been there before us, and we meet them on their way back.

— Thomas Cahill Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)

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