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Greece has produced countless world-famous poets, from ancient times down to the present. In addition to historians and non-fiction writers like Herodotus and Xenophon, and novelists like Nikos Kazantzakis.

Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.

- Homer, The Iliad

And even more honor is due to them

when they foresee (as many do foresee)

that Ephialtes will turn up in the end,

that the Medes will break through after all.

- Constantine P. Cavafy, Thermopylae

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