Choosing to resist, their town was besieged and conquered ; the males were put to death and the women sold into slavery ( see Melian dialogue ).

His text is still studied at advanced military colleges worldwide, and the Melian dialogue remains a seminal work of international relations theory.

" — This quote is part of the Melian dialogue ( Strassler 352 / 5. 89 ).

* Melian dialogue

Some events depicted in the History, such as the Melian dialogue, describe early instances of realpolitik or power politics.

" The Melian Dialogue garners a lot more attention in The History of the Peloponnesian War because of Athens ' hostility than Thucydides might have intended.

When Athens was defeated by Sparta at the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Melian survivors, who had been resettled by Sparta, were restored to their homes by the Spartan general Lysander.

Within a few years the Peloponnesian War broke out between Sparta and Athens, and the Melian community in exile raised funds to contribute to the Spartan war effort, which successfully destroyed the Athenian empire.

Commerce was practiced to some extent in very early times, as is proved by the distribution of Melian obsidian over all the Aegean area.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Melian is much mentioned in the Quenta Silmarillion, but Olórin came openly into the histories only at a later date.

It is called the ' Fenced Land ' because Melian, the queen of that land, put a girdle of enchantment about it, so that none can enter without the leave of King Thingol.

The Melian is used as an epithet for Socrates ( line 830 ) apparently on the grounds that he is an atheist like Diagoras.

It is called the ' Fenced Land ' because Melian, the queen of that land, put a girdle of enchantment about it, so that none can enter without the leave of King Thingol.

Galadriel is a good example of a magician, as is Melian the Maia, Queen of Doriath and the consort of the elven King Elu Thingol from The Silmarillion.

In most cases, the maze is controlled by some agent such as Eöl, Melian, Old Man Willow, or the Ents.

In particular, the old texts all portray Thingol as a miser who cheats the Dwarves out of their payment, and the portrayal of the Girdle of Melian in the older stories is much weaker than the impenetrable barrier of the post-Lord of the Rings writings.

In general, " the Dialogue is formally not about the morality of the eventual execution, but about the Melian response to the Athenians ' first demand, that Melos should submit.

D. M Lewis states, " The Dialogue is formally not about the morality of the eventual execution, but about the Melian response to the Athenians ' first demand, that Melos should submit.

One of the arguments in the Melian Dialogue is whether or not the destruction of Melos was a humanitarian act.

Harsh their language undoubtedly is, but it has a humanitarian end, to convince the Melian oligarchs of the need to capitulate and save themselves and the commons the horrors of a siege.

* 4630-Elwë meets Melian and is entranced.

After the First Battle Doriath is protected by the magical Lest Melian, the Girdle of Melian.

The remaining delegates grant the heroes entry to the Oracle, who is actually a sentient computer named Melian, created by the Ancients.

The first of these was between the mortal Beren, of the House of Bëor, and Lúthien, daughter of the Elf Thingol, king of the Sindar, and Melian, a Maia.

This was held between " the governing body and the few ," not before the people, leading the Athenians to imply that the Melian elite was afraid that the people might support the Athenian position.

* Melian Nymphs ( Island of Melos ), transformed into frogs by Zeus ; not to be confused with the Meliae ( ash tree nymphs )

The Melian Dialogue opened up many arguments about the morality of destroying Melos.

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

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

He, like Melian, dwelt in Lórien – the " place of Visions ".

In the 6th century BC, it again produced a remarkable series of vases, of large size, with mythological subjects and orientalizing ornamentation, and also a series of terra-cotta reliefs ( Melian Reliefs ).

Melian vases came in their turn to Crete.

Melian ( full Quenya spelling Melyanna-‘ Giver of Love ’) was a Maia attached to Vána and Estë, and formerly lived in the gardens of Lórien.

The real stars of this section are Ossë, Uinen, Melian and Olórin.

) As for the remaining two chief Maiar, Melian gains a great deal of power over Arda through conceiving and bearing a child by Elwë, and plays a real role in the Quenta Silmarillion, only dropping out when that history more or less ends upon the death of her husband.

Ulmo's vassal Ossë, and Ossë's wife Uinen were ( along with Melian ), to the Elves, the best known of the Maiar.

In the forest of Nan Elmoth he met Melian, one of the Maiar.

They fell in love, and with Melian, Thingol stood spellbound in Nan Elmoth for several years.

Thingol had Melian use her magic to create a girdle of bewilderment around Eglador, so that nobody could enter without the king's permission.

The Peredhil, Elrond and Elros, were partially of Sindarin Elven descent, as their mother Elwing was the daughter of Dior, the son of Lúthien, the daughter of Thingol and Melian.

Denethor, king of the Laiquendi, was killed during the battle, causing the Laiquendi to forsake war with Morgoth, and the Girdle of Melian was established to protect Doriath thereafter.

# Glauce, one of the Melian nymphs.

Additionally, the forests of Brethil and Nan Elmoth were held as part of Doriath, these last two lay outside the Girdle of Melian.

Towards the end of the Ages of Melkor's captivity, Melian counselled Thingol that the peace of his realm would not long endure and so with the aid of the Dwarves of Belegost he delved there the wondrous fortress called Menegroth, the Thousand Caves.

In the last years before the First Age the Orcs assailed the King of Doriath and after that Battle, the first of many in the Wars of Beleriand Melian fenced that realm, with unseen walls of shadow, the forests of Neldoreth, Region, and Nivrim.

Beren, son of Barahir and lord of the First House of Men, passes through the Girdle as Melian foretold, and arrives in Neldoreth.

The Melian earth was employed as a pigment by ancient artists.