PSYC 2022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Augury, Philip Sherrard, Revetment
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My lord atreides, we held that zeus who loves the play of lightning would give you length of glory, you were king over so great a host of soldiery before troy, where we suffered, we akhaians. But in the morning of your life you met that doom that no man born avoids. It should have found you in your day of victory, marshal of the army, in troy country; then all akhaia would have heaped your tomb and saved your honor for your son. But agamemnon"s tall shade when he heard this cried aloud: O fortunate odysseus, master mariner and soldier, blessed son of old laertes! The girl you brought home made a valiant wife! True to her husband"s honor and her own, The very gods themselves will sing her story for men on earth mistress of her own heart, Klytaimnestra, the adulteress, waited to stab her lord and king.