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The best place to start your story

Roman poet Horace [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace] in his “Ars Poetica” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Poetica_(Horace)] (“The Art of Poetry”) says of Homer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer] and the Iliad [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6130]: > Nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab

Male, Greek and naked

The Greeks [https://bcgriff.com/humor/upper-bodies-carved-cuirasses/] on PBS [https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/episode-3-chasing-greatness/]. The age of the city-states [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state] went from the 800s to the 400s. The Golden Age of Athens [https://en.wikipedia.org/

Upper bodies as carved as cuirasses

Between Greece’s Bronze and Golden Ages. I watched some more of The Greeks [https://bcgriff.com/humor/down-societal-collapse-rabbit-hole/] last night, the first 20 minutes of Part Two (“Out of Strife”) [https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/episode-2-the-good-strife/] [sic], which goes from the

I go down societal collapse rabbit hole

Legendary Mycenaean civilization ends mysteriously. I found a National Geographic documentary on ancient Greece [https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/the_greeks_national_geographic/] on PBS Passport last night, and watched the first episode [https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/episode-1-cavemen-to-kings/], going from the Stone Age to the

Life gets real when you stop collaborating

Sometimes I look around me and think, the world was so much more beautiful and exciting and fresh and alive in ancient Greece [https://bcgriff.com/humor/down-societal-collapse-rabbit-hole/]. Or it’s so much more so in the future of Star Trek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/