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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
Pindar: The arts versus war
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Pindar
From On the Eclipse of the Sun
Translated by Thomas Love Peacock
On thy darken’d course attending,
Dost thou signs of sorrow bring?
Shall the summer’s rains descending,
Blast the promise of the spring?
Or shall war, in evil season,
Spread unbounded ruin round?
Or the baleful hand of Treason
Our domestic joys confound?
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