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When she was a little girl, Gaby Melian spent lots of free time helping in the kitchen, where, she says, she fell in love with food.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2022
In Buenos Aires, Melian would often come home from school and eat a leftover empanada.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 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 hardly knew how she lived through that stunning blow—perhaps because it was a stunning one.
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 predicted that the Athenians’ cruel treatment of Melos could provoke other neutral states into opposing Athens.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2012
The Melians were basically trying to get the Athenians to recognize the logic of the golden rule: If you treat others fairly, you are more likely to be treated fairly yourself.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 12, 2012
These the Melians did not bring before the people, but bade them state the object of their mission to the magistrates and the few; upon which the Athenian envoys spoke as follows: Athenians.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
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