For the winner a large tripod made to stride a fire / and worth a dozen oxen, so the soldiers reckoned. / For the loser he led a woman through their midst, / worth four, they thought, and skilled in many crafts.
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"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
"No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus! By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-- Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breath…"
"Odysseus grabbed her throat with his right hand and told her he 'will not spare [her] when [he] kill[s] the rest, / the other slave women, although [she was] / [his] nurse'."
"It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair."
"Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns."
Description of prizes at Patroclus's funeral games in The Iliad, explicitly valuing women as property alongside other goods.
Date: c. 8th century BCE
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