“Shimmering,
iridescent,
deathless Aphrodite,
child of Zeus, weaver of wiles,
I beg you,
do not crush my spirit with anguish, Lady,
but come to me now…”

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 1

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ancient Greek lyric poet -630–-570 BC

Stanley Lombardo (1943) Philosopher, Classicist

Frag. 1
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

“Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?”

Tanith Lee book The Castle of Dark

Part 4 “The Witch Hunt” (p. 133)
The Castle of Dark (1978)

“Does that mean you agree?"
He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down."
"Fantastic.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god?
Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus.”

Aristophanés The Clouds

tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+366 <br class="br">Clouds, line 366-367 (our emphasis on 367) <br class="br">The Greek-mythology equivalent of "There is no God." <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)