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• ‟ I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.

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• ‟ My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we were, and then I saw the Elgin marbles. Suddenly, the world seemed more complicated.

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• ‟ We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

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• ‟ What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.

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• ‟ Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.

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• ‟ There is nothing inherently conservative in the ancient world.

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• ‟ Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.

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