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1 " For all the wonders of ancient Athens, or rather because of them, I faced a fundamental question. How was it that this tiny community of 200,000 souls or so (in other words, no more populous than, say, York in England or Little Rock in Arkansas) managed to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavor and to create one of the greatest civilizations in history? Indeed, it laid the foundations of our own contemporary intellectual universe. "
― Anthony Everitt , The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization
2 " civilized "
3 " Let your motto be, I lead. Strive to be best. "
4 " War is glorious and, at the same time, a great evil. "
5 " Religion was about ritual rather than belief. "
6 " It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it? "
7 " Thucydides is the greatest writer of history in history. In fact, he is so good that we are trapped inside his version of events. "