Only the Warriors of Melos are still fighting against the Monsters.

The Melos Warriors are aided by devices called Aibar machines ( could also be transliterated as Aiba-Machine ), which are essentially futuristic motorcycles with many additional capabilities.

Opposing the Melos Warriors are the Monsters themselves and their human lackeys, the Monster Union.

Monster Union leaders employ machines called robot-monsters in combat, but in contrast to the Melos Warriors, there is no standard design among these machines aside from the fact that all seem to be shaped like animals from the Chinese zodiac.

The contrast between the Monster Union members and the Melos Warriors is suggestive of the text in Revelations where it refers to people being marked by Heaven and being marked by Hell.

The show itself is also full of musical references, from the Melos Warriors ' given names ( Kurofune Ballad being the most obvious ) to the Italian musical vocabulary which flashes on the Melos Warrior ' targeting interface ' during battle ( animato, con fuoco, passionato, energico, etc.

The series then follows Bocca's journey as he sees the damage the monsters have done, learns of the humans who have pledged allegiance to them, meets other Melos Warriors and develops a romantic relationship with Sayoko.

In her conversation with Bocca, Toune disclose her hatred for Melos Warriors, and despise what she calls the arrogance of those who ride on Aibar Machines.

: A girl whose physical body is confined at an elusive area called the " Oblivion Playhouse " ( also translated as " Melody Theatre "), but can project her image so Melos Warriors can see her.

It is rumored among Melos Warriors that if her physical form can be located and resuscitated, she could unlock a power capable of wiping the Monsters off the face of the planet.

He pilots a robot monkey as he fights the Warriors of Melos.

: Little is known about this boy's past, except he states his true self is dead in real life, and that he is in a dream in real life, after being rudely awoken by Koko he becomes angered and attacks her and the other Melos Warriors.

Bocca came to ask a knowledgeable lady about Melos Warriors.

And she appears to hate Melos Warriors.

Meanwhile, the two Melos Warriors go separate ways.

The Melos, as they are also referred to, fight primarily with bows and arrows infused with the energies of their spirit ( seemingly described in Italian words and phrases used in musical notation ).

He is happy to discuss their plight with them and meanwhile one of them has a brilliant idea — the birds, he says, should stop flying about like idiots and instead should build themselves a great city in the sky, since this would not only allow them to lord it over men, it would also enable them to blockade the Olympian gods in the same way that the Athenians had recently starved the island of Melos into submission.

All monsters seem to have some control over reality itself and can only be killed by Melos Arrows.

Assisted by Dr. Duncan Mackenzie, who had already distinguished himself by his excavations on the island of Melos, and Mr. Fyfe, an architect from the British School at Athens, Evans employed a large staff of local labourers as excavators, and began work in 1900.

Richard Gilford Adeney ( 1920 – 16 December 2010 ) was a British flautist who played principal flute with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra, was a soloist and a founding member of the Melos Ensemble.

The Melos Quartet Stuttgart was founded in October 1965 by four young musicians who were members of well-known German chamber orchestras.

') The process of bonding a Warrior of Melos and an Aibar machine involves a symbolic naming of the bike by the one who is to ride it.

If a normal person ( one who is not a Melos Warrior ) looks at their true form, they will automatically transmogrify into a bizarre object ( such as stone statues or puppets, but varying with whatever monster is being viewed.

One will think that all Melos Warrior who find out about their powers would embrace their identities immediately, but not Toune ’ s.

She first appeared as someone who can fight monsters, produce a Singing Chord, and seems to know a great deal about Melos Warrior.

Liebeschuetz makes a good point on irony in the Melian Dialogue: " The Athenians look at the present and can see nothing will save Melos.

They later become friends when she realize that Bocca is a Melos Warrior, and decides to follow him so that she can look for Kurofune, whom she is in love with.

: Melos redirects here ; for the Japanese short story, see Run, Melos

Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC ( see History of Milos ), the same year the play was produced.

Native alumen from Melos appears to have been a mixture mainly of alunogen () with alum and other minor sulfates.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchatel since about 1840, the provenance ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

Aegean vases have been exhibited both at Sèvres and Neuchâtel since about 1840, the provenience ( i. e. source or origin ) being in the one case Phylakope in Melos, in the other Cephalonia.

Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic.

Many political philosophers have interpreted the dialogue, as written in the History, as reflecting Thucydides ' personal views concerning the attack on Melos, whether or not it accurately reports the specific speeches delivered at the meeting.

He argues that the Melian Dialogue was not humanitarian at all because of the brutality the Athenians used against Melos.

" With this decision, the Athenians now had the excuse they needed to destroy Melos, even though the Melians offered them peace at the end of the Dialogue by saying, "‘ We invite you to allow us to be friends of yours and enemies to neither side, to make a treaty which shall be agreeable to both you and us, and so to leave our country.

An important group was found in the Temple at Mycenae together with coiled clay snakes, while others have been found at Tiryns and in the East and West Shrines at Phylakopi on the island of Melos.

On-site techniques of flint-knapping with imported obsidian and chert attest to cultural continuity over this long stretch of time, with reduction in the supply of obsidian from Melos testifying to reduced long-distance trade at the end of Early Helladic III, corresponding to Lerna IV.

During its long history, the BSA has been involved in a multitude of archaeological projects, including surveys in Laconia, Boeotia, Methana ( Argolid ), and in the islands of Ithaca ( Ionian islands ), Kea, Melos, Kythera ( Cyclades ), Chios ( North Aegean ) and Crete ( Ayiopharango Survey, Ayios Vasilios Survey, Knossos Survey, Praisos Survey ) and excavations at Nea Nikomedeia, Sitagroi, Servia and Assiros ( Greek Macedonia ), Lefkandi ( Euboia ), Emborio and Kato Phana ( Chios ), Perachora ( Corinthia ), Mycenae ( Argolid ), Sparta ( Laconia ), Phylakopi ( Melos ), Keros ( Cyclades ), as well as in Crete at Knossos, Karphi, Praisos, Debla, Trapeza Cave, Atsipades Korakias, Psychro, Myrtos, Petsofas and Palaikastro.

Her tattoo is hidden on inner thigh of her right leg, explaining why Bocca thought she was not a Melos Warrior at first.

: When she saw he was a Melos Warrior, she quickly drew her bow, and pointed an arrow at him.

He came back to Serbia in 2006 performing at " Melos dani Estrade " in Čačak as " the star of the night ".