Sophia’s Visions, Part 6. Sophia sees Josephus in the cave at Jotapata, his prophecy to Vespasian, and his life as the Flavians’ historian. A C1 English lesson on hedging and distancing language, with a gamebook.
Alexandria · the 754th year since the founding of Rome · 1 CE
Sophia’s Visions, Part 6 · Hedging and distancing: is said to, it appears that, allegedly · C1
Think first. If the only account of an event was written by the one person who came out of it well, how much would you trust it?
While you read, notice how carefully Sophia chooses her words when she isn’t sure something is true.
Philo: “It began with a children’s game. It ended with the man who would tell the world my people’s story. Read it carefully.”
In the courtyard of the Library, the copyists’ boys were drawing lots to decide who would carry water. Each boy took a pebble from a jar; whoever drew the black one had to go. Marcos, who had been asked to hold the jar, was taking a suspiciously long time over it.
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