University of California Libraries. There, around the shores of Halkis, where the tides of Avlis swell and fall, the Greeks ached with hunger and with cursed winds Menelaus led it and Agamemnon, Zeus-set on twin thrones and twin-sceptred, twin-yoked in honour as Atreus's sons: launched here a fleet of a thousand destroyers packed out with warriors, a military task-force off from this land: calling the war-god great in their fury, screaming like eagles at peak of grief's ecstasyover their young a