Gods and Empire

If horses and oxen had hands and could draw pictures, their gods would look remarkably like horses and oxen. —⁠Xenophanes of Colophon, 570–480 BC   1. Xenophanes Flees Before the Persians   All day we trudged north along the Aegean, cold rain squalling, whipping up whitecaps, churning sandbars, eating the beach, rocking pines, hissing sand-sleet. […]