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Sunday, August 29, 2004
Light and Darkness
Jasper Griffin, Homer on Life and Death (1980; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 162:
The gods are at home in the radiant brightness of Olympus, the dead in the eternal darkness; men live between them in a world in which light and darkness succeed each other.