A mountain wind falling on oak trees

	not one girl I think who looks on the light of the sun will ever have wisdom like this — Sappho, Fragment 56, in Anne Carson, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (2002)
Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens: [T]he commanding female deities in the Greek pantheon . . . . [l]ike most gods in most cultures . . . are moody, contradictory personalities, above-it-all in knowledge but quick to play personal politics and intervene in human fate.