The quotation I started Greek class with today came from Hippocrates, and it made me think about the impetus behind ancient (and maybe modern?) medicine: to find any patterns amid the great varieties and differences of "both souls and bodies," to use Hippocrates' phrasing.
And then I lingered on a simile in the Odyssey that I can't believe I hadn't been struck by before: the Phaeacian women's hands, moving quickly while weaving, are like leaves on a tree.
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