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defiled with blood and with innumerable slaughters for the sake of children and
country...." (Quoted in Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 573.)
38. Anthropologists describing this ploy among the Yanomamo call it "the
treacherous feast." See Allen W. Johnson and Timothy Earle, The Evolution of
Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, p. 121.
39. Michael Grant and John Hazel, Gods and Mortals: Classical Mythology, A
Dictionary, Dorset Press, New York, 1985, p. 303. Robert J. Gula, Thomas H.
Carpenter, Mythology, Greek and Roman, The Independent School Press,
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1977, p. 232. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1986, Vol. 10, p. 281.
40. Homer, The Iliad, Richmond Lattimore, trans., The University of Chicago
Press, 1961, p. 494.
41. The habit of raiding a town, killing the men, then making off with the women
was so common in classical times that Odysseus and his merry band, after the
burning of Troy, pulled off more of these despicable attacks as they wended their
way home. Bragged the wily hero of The Odyssey, "From Ilion the wind drove me
along and brought me to Ismaros, in the land of the Ciconians. There I sacked the
city and put the men to death. We captured from the city their wives and much
treasure and divvied it all among us." (The Odyssey, IX, 39-42, quoted in M.M.
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defiled with blood and with innumerable slaughters for the sake of children and
country...." (Quoted in Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 573.)
38. Anthropologists describing this ploy among the Yanomamo call it "the
treacherous feast." See Allen W. Johnson and Timothy Earle, The Evolution of
Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, p. 121.
39. Michael Grant and John Hazel, Gods and Mortals: Classical Mythology, A
Dictionary, Dorset Press, New York, 1985, p. 303. Robert J. Gula, Thomas H.
Carpenter, Mythology, Greek and Roman, The Independent School Press,
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1977, p. 232. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,
1986, Vol. 10, p. 281.
40. Homer, The Iliad, Richmond Lattimore, trans., The University of Chicago
Press, 1961, p. 494.
41. The habit of raiding a town, killing the men, then making off with the women
was so common in classical times that Odysseus and his merry band, after the
burning of Troy, pulled off more of these despicable attacks as they wended their
way home. Bragged the wily hero of The Odyssey, "From Ilion the wind drove me
along and brought me to Ismaros, in the land of the Ciconians. There I sacked the
city and put the men to death. We captured from the city their wives and much
treasure and divvied it all among us." (The Odyssey, IX, 39-42, quoted in M.M.
Austin and P. Vidal-Naquet, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An
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