The quoted Iliad passage shows the Greek army rushing for home like storm-driven waves when given permission to leave.
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The quoted Odyssey passages present Odysseus as an unwilling lover by night and a grieving, homeward-looking man by day.
The quoted wooden-horse passage presents Troy as doomed once it accepts the horse, with Achaean power hidden inside and death bearing down on the city.
The quoted widow simile makes Odysseus' tears mirror the grief of the conquered woman whose husband dies and who is dragged into slavery.
The quoted Machado clip welcomes more pressure so Maduro understands he has to go, while rhetorically denying that this amounts to conventional regime change.
The host quotes Machado as promising that a post-Maduro Venezuela would become Israel's closest ally in Latin America and would rely on Israeli support to dismantle the Maduro regime.
The quoted Maduro clip presents his public line as a peace appeal: no more endless wars, no more unjust wars, and no repeat of Libya or Afghanistan.
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"Testing his men, but he only made the spirit race inside their chests, all the rank and file who'd never heard his plan. And..."
"The queenly nymph sought out the great Odysseus, the commands of Zeus still ringing in her ears, and found him there on the headland,..."
"In the night true, he'd sleep with her in the arching cave. He had no choice, unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing. But..."
"Stirred now by the muse, the bard launched out in the fine blaze of song, starting at just the point where the main Achaean..."
"And he sang how troops of Achaeans broke from cover, streaming out of the horse's hollow flanks to plunder Troy. He sang how left..."
"There he sang, Odysseus fought the grimmest fight he had ever braved, but he won through at last, thanks to Athena's superhuman power. That..."
"Trump has repeatedly suggested that military strikes inside Venezuela could happen soon as he puts pressure on the dictator, Nicholas Maduro in an exclusive..."
"Would you welcome U S military action? I will welcome more and more pressure. So Maduro understands that he has to go, that his..."
"Yeah, well, let's get into, you know, there's this element, Professor Jung, of the United States' own precarious situation. And how I see the..."
"And then when they asked her, will diplomatic relations with Israel and establish Venezuela's location in Jerusalem happen, she will say, certainly Venezuela will..."
"What is your message to the people of the United States? To unite for the peace of the continent. No more endless wars. No..."
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