“For it was not a god invading Greece, but a man; and no man now existed or ever would exist who was not liable to misfortune from the day of his birth – and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. Their invader therefore, being only human, was bound to fall from his glory.”

“For it was not a god invading Greece, but a man; and no man now existed or ever would exist who was not liable to misfortune from the day of his birth – and the greater the man, the greater the misfortune. Their invader therefore, being only human, was bound to fall from his glory.”

— Herodotus