![]() ![]() In our modern lives, many of us actively cultivate our differences from these unified communities, in defense of privacy and autonomy. ![]() ![]() We praise and envy the certainty, dedication, and meaningfulness of such moments, whether we look at ancient Greece or at a small town in early America. It's not surprising that an in-between period is our main focus: human beings define which are the pinnacle moments of history and which are the in-between moments, and we tend to choose moments of certainty as pinnacles. When we look for doubt among the ancients, in the West we are going to find the most lively cases in the Hellenistic period - the few hundred years between the dominance of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome. Whatever Happened to Zeus and Hera?, 600 BCE - 1 CE ![]()
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