Adrienne Mayor Archaeologists have been digging up thousands of graves of people called Scythians by the Greeks. They turn out to be people whose women fought, hunted, rode horses, used bows and arrows, just like the men. – Adrienne Mayor Archaeologists Quotes Arrows Quotes Bows Quotes Called Quotes Digging Quotes Fought Quotes Graves Quotes Greeks Quotes Horses Quotes Hunted Quotes People Quotes Rode Quotes Scythians Quotes Thousands Quotes Women Quotes We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers’ tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women. I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
Danny Boyle I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. – Danny Boyle
Shailene Woodley For me, my rule in this industry is I’ve got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after. – Shailene Woodley
AJ Tracey I’m doing super quality control. I’ll have five tunes that I think are all good – before I would’ve put out all five tunes but now I’m just putting out that one out of the five that I think is the banger. – AJ Tracey
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