Sometimes I think I'm done answering emails and then I get more emails in response to the emails I thought had sorted out the last of the questions anybody wanted to ask me. Also I get emails every time I buy a shirt.
"[Nabis, tyrant of Sparta] next had constructed a kind of machine, if machine it may be called, which was the figure of a woman, clothed in costly garments, and made to resemble with extraordinary fidelity the wife of Nabis." So far so good!!
How much time would you be willing to personally invest in building the first-ever step pyramid?
A. At least as much time as spent on previous monuments made of mud brick
B. As much time as was necessary
C. No more than nineteen years