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To: rickyrikardo

Rape goes way back.

“Therefore let no man hasten to depart home till each have lain by some Trojan’s wife and paid back the strivings and groans for Helen’s sake.”—HOMER THE ILLIAD


6 posted on 07/01/2014 6:19:45 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

The whole Illiad turns on “the wrath of Achilles.”

He was wrathful because Agamemnon had taken his captive Briseis away before he could rape her.


14 posted on 07/01/2014 7:16:35 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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