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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 256 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 160 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 80 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 70 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter) | 64 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, The Suppliants (ed. E. P. Coleridge) | 54 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Euripides, Heracleidae (ed. David Kovacs) | 54 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Andocides, Speeches | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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“So I spoke, and he straightway made answer, and said:‘It is the son of Laertes, whose home is in Ithaca. Him I saw in an island, shedding big tears, in the halls of the nymph Calypso, who keeps him there perforce, and he cannot come to his native land, for he has at hand no ships with oars and no comradesto send him on his way over the broad back of the sea. But for thyself, Menelaus, fostered of Zeus, it is not ordained that thou shouldst die and meet thy fate in horse-pasturing Argos, but to the Elysian plain and the bounds of the earth will the immortals convey thee, where dwells fair-haired Rhadamanthus,and where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor heavy storm, nor ever rain, but ever does Ocean send up blasts of the shrill-blowing West Wind that they may give cooling to men; for thou hast Helen to wife, and art in their eyes the husband of the daughter of Zeus.’
“So saying he plunged beneath the surging sea, but I went to my ships with my god like comrades, and many
He verily was busied thus, and was praying and offering sacrifice to Athena by the stern of the ship, when there drew nigh to him a man from a far land, one that was fleeing out of Argos because he had slain a man;and he was a seer. By lineage he was sprung from Melampus, who of old dwelt in Pylos, mother of flocks, a rich man and one that had a very wealthy house among the Pylians, but had afterward come to a land of strangers, fleeing from his country and from great-hearted Neleus, the lordl scaped his fate, and drove off the deep-lowing kine from Phylace to Pylos, and avenged the cruel deed upon godlike Neleus, and brought the maiden home to be his own brother's wife. For himself, he went to the land of other men, to horse-pasturing Argos, for there it was appointed himto dwell, bearing sway over many Argives. There he wedded a wife and built him a high-roofed house, and begot Antiphates and Mantius, two stalwart sons. Now Antiphates begot great-hearted Oicles, and Oicles Amphiara