'The daughters of the high priest Anius changed whatever they pleased to corn, wine, and oil; Athalide, the daughter of Mercury, was resuscitated several times; Æsculapius resuscitated Hippolytus; Hercules rescued Alcestes from the hand of death; and Heres returned to the world after having passed fifteen days in h3ll. Romulus and Remus were the offspring of a god and a vestal virgin. The Palladium descended from heaven on the city of Troy; the hair of Berenice was changed into a constellation...give me the name of one people among whom incredible prodigies have not been performed, and especially in those periods in which the people scarcely knew how to write or read'.
Voltaire, 'Miracles and Idolatry'
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