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In the Iliad noble heroes move inexorably, by way of a combination of choice and of forces beyond their control, toward destruction and dissolution. We are left with mourning, honour, endurance, and pity. In the Odyssey a somewhat dubiously heroic hero wins his way through various fantastical hazards by means of trickery and ingenuity. The Odyssey is not exclusive; it has room for travel, for rustics and servants, for low life, and for dastardly villains. Its overall movement is away from war and from barbarity towards prosperity and peace, cen tred on the wife and a happy domestic scene.
—Oliver Taplin, British classical scholar. “Homer,” The Oxford History of the Classical World, ed. John Boardman, et al., Oxford University Press (1986)
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I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battlefield I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely.... The more you think of it, the less the difference. And certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
A Brief History Of Fragrance Products ... It is commonly agreed that the Egyptians were the first, as a culture, to wholly integrate fragrance into their cultural world. Under the reign of Queen Sheba, religious ceremonies, including things like burning incense to honor the dead, became the cultural standard in the country...