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As I chatted with Melian, I couldn’t help but smile and remember my first cookbook: “Betty Crocker’s New Boys and Girls Cookbook.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2022
An adult could rely on memory to decide, but Gaby Melian decided to go to the source: children.
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
I’m going to turn to and do things,” answered Melian decisively.
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 hadn’t done anything to hurt Athens or help Sparta; they just wanted to keep to themselves.
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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