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Marvelous commentary. Using reason to overcome our animal instincts, & inflamed emotionalism ,

is the essence of civilization. Sometimes ,in our modern media landscape, I feel oddly out of place ,

saying such a simple thing.

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Thats the beauty of having a Classics community online - I think that feeling is something we all have experienced!

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Very cool!

Those Cretans and their frighteningly silly bull cults and building practices. When I visited Basque country in Spain many years back, the bullfighting there reminded me of Crete and this legend.

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