FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2026
Had the town any prayers to offer? I saw the town, the brave town. I saw the Achaeans, too. Sing of the Achaeans' might! Tell! The Achaeans sacked the town! Under it — under the Achaeans — the age of prayers was sacked. In the sacked town, I offer two prayers — of the town, of the Achaeans. Of the two I sing.
Eric Jansson
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- The Odyssey — Homer (tr. Butler), c. 700 BC
- The Republic — Plato (tr. Jowett), c. 375 BC
- The Iliad — Homer (tr. Butler), c. 750 BC
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
- A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens, 1859
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