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Madeline Miller • CIRCE
I have my own name for the quest. I call it the Phoenix Process—in honor of the mythic bird with golden plumage whose story has been told throughout the ages. The Egyptians called the bird the Phoenix and believed that every five hundred years he renewed his quest for his true self. Knowing that a new way could be found only with the death of his w
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Le premier fruit de la culture hellénique fut Homère. On ne sait rien de lui, mais la majorité des critiques s’accordent à penser que son œuvre est celle d’une série de poètes plutôt qu’émanant d’un seul individu. On croit que l’Iliade et l’Odyssée demandèrent deux cents ans pour être entièrement achevées. On a donné les dates de 750 à 550 avant J.
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Mary Beard • SPQR
“The ba is written sometimes as a winged human head, which is the older form, and sometimes as a human-faced bird. For the ka-ibis is the highest part of the body and it is in the head, and the ba is the first part of us that is conscious of leaving Earth and of being ‘winged’.