Encyclopedia of arms control and disarmament

Euryplus and Inachus; Euripides, Alexander and Cretans; and many more. Euripides, mMelanippe the Wise, an Olympian beauty who gave twin sons to Poseidon, has the heroine relate her story. "No, I must recall my tale to the point where I began?to my own name. They call me Melanippe" (14). The second major section, Old Comedy, fifth century B.C., gives fragments of Cratinus, The Plutuses; Eupolis, The Demes; Aristophanes, Fragments; Plato, Fragment; and others. Plato advises: "It is better to keep a wife at home, than antidotes bought from Eudemus" (43). Other marvelous sections deal with the Middle Comedy and New Comedy, fourth and third centuries B.C., Mime, Lyric Poems, Elegiac and Iambic Poems, and Hexameter Poems. Sappho, the Tenth Muse, sings: "The holy temple, where is a pleasant grove of apple trees, and altars fragrant with frankincense. And there cold water sounds through the apple branches, and all the place is shadowy with roses, and from the whispering leaves comes slumber down. And there a lovely meadow blooms with flowers of springtime, and to ...breathe the sweet scent.... There, Aphrodite takes up wreaths and pours nectar gracefully in golden cups, mingled with the festive joy35 (81). No wonder Sappho was known as the Tenth Muse!