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When ants are struck (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


Keywords
ants
similes
Period
7th century BCE
Greek Archaic Age
Middle Assyrian Empire
Channel
Greek poets


Text
el-Amarna Letters 252.16:
When ants are struck, they do not (just) accept it, but bite the hand of the man that strikes them.

Archilochus 23.15-16:
I know how to hate my enemy and be the ant that [ … ]s him


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el-Amarna Letters 252.16
Archilochus 23.15-16

Bibliography

West 1997, 500West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus


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