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THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE

THERMOPYLAE

A CRETAN MERCHANT

A FRIEND'S GRAVE

A HOUND

ARCHEDIKE

AT THERMOPYLAE

DANAE

DEDICATION FOR A SPEAR

INSCRIBED ON A CENOTAPH

LOST AT SEA

MONUMENTS PERISH

ON MAN'S LIFE

ORPHEUS

PLATAEA: THE ATHENIAN MONUMENT

PLATAEA: THE SPARTAN MONUMENT

STILLNESS AND SOUND

TEGEA: A CENOTAPH

TEGEA: A GRAVE

THE ATHENIAN DEAD

THE CLIMB TO VIRTUE

THE GREEK DEAD AT THERMOPLYLAE

THE POET'S FRIEND

THE TURN OF A DRAGONFLY'S WING

TIMOCREON

TIMOMACHUS

CRIMSON SAIL DRENCHED ON

GREAT LIGHT WAS BORN IN ATHENS WHEN

ADRIFT IN THE CARVEN ARK - BY THE WINDS

BECAUSE OF THESE MEN'S COURAGE, NO SMOKE ROSE

BEING MORTAL, NEVER SAY WHAT TOMORROW

EVERYTHING COMES TO THE SAME

GLORIOUS MESSENGER

HAD I GOT HERE SOONER

HERE LIES ANACREON

HERMES GRANTS IT WELL

IT IS HARD TO BECOME A TRULY GOOD MAN

JUST AS WHEN ZEUS ADMONISHES

NEITHER POLYDEUKES' MIGHT

NEW WINE DOE NOT

NO ONE WITHOUT THE GODS

NOR WAS THERE THEN

NOT EVEN THOSE WHO EXISTED BEFORE

NOT SCANTILY WAS SHORN

O PASSER BY, / TELL THE LACEDAEMONIANS

SLIGHT THE STRENGTH OF MEN

STRANGER, HEN YOU COME TO

STRANGER, WHEN YOU COME TO LAKEDAIMON

STORY IS

THERE FLUTTERED ABOVE HIS HEAD

THERE IS NO EVIL THAT MAN

THERE IS ONE STORY

THEY WEPT FOR THE SUCKLING CHILD

TO THOSE WHO FELL AT THERMOPYLAI

TOURIST, TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR HAWKISH NATION:

WE LIE HERE, / HAVING GIVEN OUR LIVES

WHAT MORTAL LIFE

WHEN IN THE SPRING

WHEN ON THE CARVED CHEST

WHO OF THOSE ALIVE

WHO WITH ANY SENSE WOULD PRAISE

WHO WITH THE SPEAR

BOXER

WINNER OF THE PENTATHLON

ARCHEDICE

COMMENT ON CLEOBULUS' EPITAPH ON IMMORTALITY

DANAE

DANAE ADRIFT

DANAE AND PERSEUS

EPIGRAM ON THE LONG SLEEP OF DEATH

EPITAPH

EPITAPH OF THE CORINTHIANS WHO DIED AT SALAMIS

EPITAPH ON THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA

EPITAPHS AT THERMOPYLAE: 1

EPITAPHS AT THERMOPYLAE: 2

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FOR THE SPARTAN DEAD AT THERMOPYLAI (480 B.C.)

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HUMAN IMPERFECTION

LIFE'S BEST

LOST AT SEA

LOST AT SEA

LOST AT SEA

LOST AT SEA

ON A HOUND

ON THE CHARACTER OF THE ISLANDERS OF LEROS

ON THE GREEKS WHO DIED AT THERMOPYLAE

ON THE LACEDAEMONIAN DEAD AT PLATAEA

ON THOSE WHO FELL AT PLATAEA

ON THOSE WHO FELL AT THERMOPYLAE

ON TWO BROTHERS

ATHENIAN MONUMENT AT PLATAEA

BACKBITER

DEAD AT THERMOPLYLAE

DEAD OF ATHENS AT CHALCIS

DEAD OF SPARTA AT PLATAEA

DEAD OF SPARTA AT THERMOPYLAE

LAMENTATIN OF DANAE

LAST UTTERANCE OF THE DELPHIC ORACLE

SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE

THERMOPYLAE ODE

UNLOOKED-FOR BARGAIN

THERMOPYLAE

YOUTH AND LIFE



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