Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Klassen also provides a quote from the Odyssey stating, "The disgrace of it will echo down the generations should we fail to punish the murderer of our sons and kindred (Odyssey XXIV. 433-34)." ... Klassen states that this reiterates the position of Isocrates: "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." ... The Old Testament is also r...

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