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The booby never perceived
that under his rich-fleeced sheep there were men tied on!
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece.
Alexander the Great (1970)
In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world.
In their criminal folly they perpetrated a monstrous wrong,
squandering the possessions and insulting the bedfellow
of a most noble man, saying he would never return.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
First, while she was washing clothes near the hollow ship,
one of them made love to her, a thing that fuddles the senses
of truly feminine women, even one that’s well-behaved.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
I’ve been harshly battered by countless waves,
and aboard my ship I had no long-term care for my body,
which is why my limbs are now very badly out of trim.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Him she found on the seashore, sitting; nor were his eyes
ever wiped dry of tears; sweet life was draining from him
as he yearned to be home, since the nymph no longer pleased him.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Macedonia as a whole was tended to remain in isolation from the rest of the Greeks...
...for the first time he (Phillip) started to understand how Macedonia's outdated institutions of feudalism an aristocratic monarchy so despised by the rest of Greece.
She climbed the high ladder that led to her own chamber,
and with her strong hand picked up the neatly hooked key—
bronze, finely wrought, with a fitted ivory handle
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
for not bloodless, I think,
will be the final reckoning between that man and the suitors,
once he’s made it home and is under his own roof.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Then limb from limb he tore them to prepare his supper,
and devoured them like a mountain-bred lion, leaving nothing—
innards and flesh, bones with the marrow in them,
while we, lamenting, reached out our hands to Zeus
at the sight of such bestial deeds.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
the well-built altar
of Zeus of Enclosures, on which Laërtēs and Odysseus
had burnt in his honor so many thighs of oxen.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Now prudent Penelopē made a fresh decision: to show
herself to her suitors, so outrageous and arrogant;
for she’d learnt in her halls of the plan to murder her son
from Medōn the herald, who’d overheard their discussion.
The Odyssey: A New Translation (2018)
Aristotle found support for his thesis in facts drawn from geopolitics or ‘natural law’. Greek superiority had to be proved demonstrably innate, a gift of nature. In one celebrated fragment he counsels Alexander to be ‘a hegemon [leader] of Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants’.