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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Theseus overturned this by a single stroke: he moved the sessions outdoors, to the hill of the Pnyx, where the people could attend and observe their betters. What a revolution this affected! Before,
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
That fearsome emotion that animates the female in all-female groups {called outere in Amazon and gynekophoitos in Greek}
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Last of terror's stages, Selene had tutored Europa and me, is busyness."
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men.
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
You imagined we had entered unknown country, my friend, when we voyaged across the sea to Amazonia. Yet that was nothing beside the frontier I cross each evening with this woman who is my equal. Each dawn new continents are sighted; each night one alights on shores where no man's sole has trod." He
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
It was an era when history butted up against mythology,
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Each man recalls not the enemy he hated, but the champion who engaged him with such valor.
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.
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Steven Pressfield _ Last of the Amazons
Indeed, we own a bond, my friend. That most sublime of all: reminiscence for our vanished youth.
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