Mytilene

But th- no, mine too.

Um, and there's a wonderful incidence whereby the Athenian democracy, um, are voting on, um, the city, the Greek city state of Mytilene, which is part of the Athenian empire, and they've rebelled.

And the Athenian democracy, the rebellion has been put down, and the assembly is meeting, and this is around 6,000 people.

It's a direct democracy.

And they are meeting and discussing what punishments to give out to Mytilene.

And what happens is, uh, Cleon, who's a hawk, says, "We must kill every male in the city and imprison and enslave all the females and the small children." So this is a genocide.

So there's a close vote in the assembly.

A few hours later, the citizens are discussing this saying, "This is too harsh.

We have one ear, sir, if she would.

But there never came her like in Mytilene.

If she do the deed of darkness thou wouldst say.

Your honour knows what tis to say well enough.

Act V.

Scene I.

On board Pericles' ship, off Mytilene.

A closed pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it.

And may the God grant me such good sense as will enable me to write with wisdom of the passions of others.

The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe Book I The sea flows round Mytilene, a fair city of Lesbos, and channels filled by the sea and adorned by bridges of polished white stone divide it so frequently that the beholder, viewing it from a distance, would perceive a group of small islands rather than a city.

About eight or nine leagues from this city a rich man had an estate, the finest in the island of Lesbos, containing game coverts, hillsides clothed with vines, wheat-growing fields, pasturage for cattle, and along the shore the sea washed long reaches of fine sand.

On this estate, a goat-herd named Laman noticed, whilst watching his flock, that one of his she-goats would disappear suddenly, and seeking for some reason why she should abandon her kid, He kept his eye upon her, till one hot noon he saw her enter a dense thicket fenced with briars and woven ivy.

So spoke the Mithimneans.

Daphnis was sore with blows and buffetings, but catching sight of Chloe, made light of them and spoke thus.

i keep a good guard over my goats and nobody in the village has ever complained that one of them has barked a tree in a garden or broken a vine shoot but these men are inexperienced hunters and their dogs are not well trained for they run hither and thither barking loudly and at nothing so that my goats took fright and to escape them run from the plain and from the hill down to the sea as they might from wolves well my goats have eaten through a rope of twisted osiers what else could they do on the shore where there is neither shrub nor time for them to eat the ship is lost at sea let a storm account for the loss and not my goats which were not the cause of it it is said that there were rich clothes collars dog slips and much money aboard her but who will believe that a boat laden so richly would be left alone tied to the shore by a withy whilst speaking tears started to his eyes and all the folk were sorry for him and philetus who should pronounce his sentence swore by god pan and the nymphs that daphnis had done no wrong nor had his goats and that the fault if fault there was should be charged to the wind and the sea and that he did not hold himself as one who could properly judge these nevertheless the good philetas could not persuade the methimneans to accept his judgment and when in anger they seized daphnis again and began to tie his hands and to carry him away the villagers rose up of a sudden like a flock of starlings o'er doors and took daphnis from them who when he had freed his hands attacked with the others and assailing them with their staves they turned them to flight and ceased not until they had driven them over their borders and when they were gone in the pursuit in the quietness that followed chloe led daphnis to the cavern of the nymphs where she bathed his face which was covered with the blood that had flowed from his nose then taking from her wallet some cheese and cake she gave him to eat thereof and what most of all restored him gave him with her tender mouth a kiss sweet as honey so did daphnis escape the danger but the end of the strife was not yet come for the gallants from thimney returning on foot whence they had come in a fine ship wounded and torn instead of a gay party seeking pleasure made application to the town council to whom they came in humble weed and downcast faces to beg vengeance for the outrage that had been committed upon them, taking care to put a different colour upon all, lest they should be exposed to laughter for having allowed themselves to be beaten by shepherds, accusing loudly the Mytileneans of having roped them and stolen their boat by force, just as they might have done in open warfare.

their wounds bore testimony to the truth of the story they told, and the Methimneans, believing it to be a just and right thing to avenge the outrage that had been committed upon the children of the noblest families of their town, declared war upon the Mytileneans, without troubling to send a herald or declaration of war, merely ordering their general to put to sea promptly with ten galleys, and to do as much damage to their coasts as he might.

She's from the Greek island of Lesbos, possibly born in Eresos in the southwest part of the island.

Maybe, however, she was born in the capital of Lesbos, Mytilene.

So we're looking at a female poet in the North Aegean, which is really interestingly miles or around about 36 kilometers from Turkey, so very, very close.

You can stand in Mytilene and look at Turkey across the Aegean.

Lesbos was founded, if she's born in Eresos, around about the 8th century BCE.

Sappho is said to have been born circa 620 BCE, give and take a few years, so toward the end of the 7th century BCE.

We went ahead to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there, for he had made this arrangement intending to go by land himself.

When he met us in Assos, we took him on board and went to Mytilene.

We sailed from there, and on the following day we arrived opposite Chios.

The next day we touched at Samos, and the day after that we came to Miletus.

There has been a revival of the old Minoan culture.

The Greeks have become a nation of traders, living in luxurious cities such as Miletus and Mytilene.

Politically, they are dependent on the great eastern land empires, and from the east they have taken ideas which vitally affect the position of women.

The first of these may be stated thus.