Ancient Greeks

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    When man has neither the strength to subdue his underworld powers—which are really the ancient powers of his old, superseded self; nor the wit to placate them with sacrifice and the burnt holocaust; then they come back at him, and destroy him again. Hence every new conquest of life means a “harrowing of Hell.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
    They have pointed the helms of their ships
    Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)