troy ancient greece Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/troy-ancient-greece Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Troy: A City Contested by Gods & Men http://travelsfinders.com/troy-a-city-contested-by-gods-men.html http://travelsfinders.com/troy-a-city-contested-by-gods-men.html#respond Fri, 22 Dec 2017 21:42:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244916 And did you then turn traitor, Zeus, betray your temple here at Troy, your altar sweet with incense the wisps of myrrh that rose in fragrance to the sky, the sacred citadel, the Pergamum, the glens of Ida where the ivies cling, the rivers white with melted snow that froth down to the sea and the light that bathes the far horizon with the first pale blush of dawn, this sacred place, this shining, sacred homeland? Your sacrifices now are gone, gone too the choral liturgy of hymns, the all-night festivals in darkness to the gods, all gone, the icons

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