Life is warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 2.
Image: Roman mosaic depicting the Amazonomachy, an Amazon warrior armed with a labrys is seized by her Phrygian cap by a hippeus. Second half of the 4th century CE from Daphne, a suburb of Antioch on the Orontes (modern Antakya in southern Turkey), now in The Louvre in Paris courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen.
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