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Burn That City Down (Alcaeus 42)

from Greener than Grass by Marissa Henry

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Loosely based on a fragment that compares Helen, the woman whose abduction caused the Trojan war, to Thetis, the mother of the greatest Greek warrior who fought in it: a bad girl and a good girl, but both can be seen as causing immense destruction.

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The child of a swan and a woman
The bribe for a pretty boy’s praise
A curse on an arrogant people
To show them the fault of their ways

So find yourself a wife who’s not like that
Who’s not like that

Don’t bring her to your city
She’s just a liability
And when the ships and armies come around
They will burn that city down

The child of a nymph and the ocean
The gods always longed for her hand
A maiden of honor and chastity
The wife of a virtuous man

So find yourself a wife who’s just like that
Who’s just like that

And love will bloom for both of you
And she will bear a son for you
And when he hears that battle trumpet sound
He will burn that city down, down

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from Greener than Grass, released November 28, 2018

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Marissa Henry Berkeley, California

Marissa is a Classics Ph.D. student and singer-songwriter specializing in folk-pop adaptations of ancient Greek poetry played on toy instruments.

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