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"As a general thing we find that the ancient myths do not give us a simple and consistent story; consequently it should occasion no surprise if we find, when we put the ancient accounts together, that in some details they are not in agreement with those given by every poet and historian." (Diodorus Siculus, 80-20 BC, The Library of History 4.44.5).
"… the gods of Greece and of freedomthey are identical …" (Aelian, ca. AD 170-235, Varia Historia 12.1).
"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece." (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822, Hellas).
"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881).
"There is properly no history; only biography." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882).
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