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“I enjoyed it so much and I was quick,” said Melian, 52, now a professional chef and author.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
Melian writes that tostadas were “invented as a way to use up leftovers. Toasting or frying stale tortillas turns them crunchy and delicious. And then you can top them with other leftovers.”
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
“Wasn’t he asking you something?” said Melian, as they spun over the railway bridge above the station.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
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, completely outmatched by the Athenian army, pointed out that the Athenians were not dealing with them justly.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2012
The Melians then appealed to the Athenians’ reason and self-interest.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2012
But the case of Melos was different, for that island had never been included in the Athenian alliance, and the Melians had done nothing to provoke an attack.
From Stories from Thucydides by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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