1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
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Athena<br />
Did you know that the Greeks violated my shrine?<br />
Poseidon<br />
Yes, when Ajax assaulted Cass<strong>and</strong>ra at your altar.<br />
Athena<br />
He was neither punished nor reprim<strong>and</strong>ed by the Greeks.<br />
Poseidon<br />
Yes, <strong>and</strong> they sacked Troy all because of your power.<br />
Athena<br />
Which I now want to join with yours to punish them.<br />
I’m ready to help; what will you do?<br />
Poseidon<br />
Athena<br />
I want their homecoming to be miserable.<br />
While they are still on l<strong>and</strong>, or out at sea?<br />
Poseidon<br />
Athena<br />
When they have set sail for home from Ilium, Zeus<br />
has promised to send rain <strong>and</strong> thick hail <strong>and</strong> dark squalls<br />
from the heavens, <strong>and</strong> he has given me his word<br />
that he will strike their ships with his thunderbolts<br />
<strong>and</strong> burn them to a crisp; you make the Aegean passage<br />
roar with huge waves <strong>and</strong> dizzying whirlpools,<br />
<strong>and</strong> fill the Euboean gulf with corpses, so that<br />
for the rest of time the Greeks may learn to honour<br />
my temples <strong>and</strong> give proper worship to all the gods.<br />
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