“What is the achievement of a mere poet, compared to that of an Olympic victor?”
The Classic Age’s equivalent of the Grand Tour with a young Gordianus the Finder, in company with his teacher, Antipater, the dead epic poet. Yes, really. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; the statue of Zeus at Olympia; the Colossus of Rhodes, alas fallen and in pieces but nevertheless awe-inspiring; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (a…
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