“We must remember that a mere eighty generations separate us from the Golden Age of Greek culture. And what are eighty generations’ They shrink to an almost imperceptible span when compared with the enormous stretch of time that separates us from Neanderthal or Heidelberg man.”

—C.G. Young, as quoted in The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, 2005.