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    defiled with blood and with innumerable slaughters for the sake of children and

    country...."  (Quoted in Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p. 573.)

    38. Anthropologists describing this ploy among the Yanomamo call it "the

    treacherous feast."  See Allen W. Johnson and Timothy Earle, The Evolution of

    Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, p. 121.

    39. Michael Grant and John Hazel, Gods and Mortals: Classical Mythology, A

    Dictionary, Dorset Press, New York, 1985, p. 303.  Robert J. Gula, Thomas H.

    Carpenter,  Mythology, Greek and Roman, The Independent School Press,

    Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1977, p. 232.  The New Encyclopaedia Britannica,

    1986, Vol. 10, p. 281.

    40. Homer,  The Iliad, Richmond Lattimore, trans.,  The University of Chicago

    Press, 1961, p. 494.

    41. The habit of raiding a town, killing the men, then making off with the women

    was so common in classical times that Odysseus and his merry band, after the

    burning of Troy, pulled off more of these despicable attacks as they wended their

    way home.  Bragged the wily hero of The Odyssey, "From Ilion the wind drove me

    along and brought me to Ismaros, in the land of the Ciconians.  There I sacked the

    city and put the men to death.  We captured from the city their wives and much

    treasure and divvied it all among us."  (The Odyssey, IX, 39-42, quoted in M.M.

    Austin and P. Vidal-Naquet, Economic and Social History of Ancient Greece: An

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