Cassandra
“The hall at Mycenae is very large, taking up most of the main building on the acropolis. Because the Cyclopes prefer to build in circles and spheres - I wondered if it had anything to do with their religion - it is an oval shape and fully eighty paces from one door to the other. A hole in the roof let out the smoke from a huge fire burning on the central hearth. There must have been a hundred men in that room, all drunk, chewing bones and throwing them down to start irritable snapping fights am...ong the hunting dogs which every guest seemed to have brought.
Slaves threaded the crowd with difficulty, carrying ewers and refilling the flat wine cups which the Achaeans use. They are called kylixes and that is the only useful information I got out of my seatmate, a dour youth who glowered into his cup and muttered to himself about Argive Elene, most beautiful of women, and how she would never look at him. He seemed very hurt when I instantly agreed. After that I sampled and pushed aside some roast goat which tasted dangerously aged, drank a little diluted wine and amused myself by surveying the men who had come to settle this most dangerous of marriages.MoreLess
Slaves threaded the crowd with difficulty, carrying ewers and refilling the flat wine cups which the Achaeans use. They are called kylixes and that is the only useful information I got out of my seatmate, a dour youth who glowered into his cup and muttered to himself about Argive Elene, most beautiful of women, and how she would never look at him. He seemed very hurt when I instantly agreed. After that I sampled and pushed aside some roast goat which tasted dangerously aged, drank a little diluted wine and amused myself by surveying the men who had come to settle this most dangerous of marriages.MoreLess
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