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“Growing up we didn’t have snacks. It wasn’t like I got home from school, and I said, ‘abuela tengo hambre’ and my grandma would hand me a bag of chips,” Melian recalls.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
Throughout the cookbook, Melian notes, “When in doubt, ask a grown-up for help.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
Athens insisted that Melos join its alliance, noting threateningly that the powerful do what they want and the weak must accept it, according to the historian Thucydides in his famous "Melian Dialogue."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2015
So while she may be an important figure, I don't get the impression Melian is much present in the books?
From Time ● Jan. 5, 2013
Melian went over to a writing table, found a telegraph form, and having filled it in, rang the bell and dispatched it.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
Fifteen years later, the Athenians sent their navy to the neutral island of Melos, demanding that the Melians abandon their neutral stance, join the Athenian-dominated Delian League, and pay tribute to Athens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
After the Melians fail to talk themselves out of their weakness, the Athenian assembly talk themselves into the Sicilian Expedition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Thucydides had the strutting Athenians sneer at the vanquished Melians that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 4, 2017
The Melians predicted that the Athenians’ cruel treatment of Melos could provoke other neutral states into opposing Athens.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2012
The Melians had not joined the Confederacy of Delos, and they might therefore be reproached for sharing the protection of Athens without making any return.
From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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