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Thetis<\/h3>\n<p><em>Constantine P. Cavafy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unfaithfulness<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>So although we approve of many things in Homer, this we will not approve of&#8230;. nor will we approve of Aeschylus when he makes Thetis say that Apollo sang at her wedding in celebration of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>her child: &#8220;that he would not know sickness, would live long,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and that every blessing would be his; and he sang such praises that he rejoiced my heart. And I had hopes that the divine lips of Apollo,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>fluent with the art of prophecy, would not prove false. But he who proclaimed these things&#8230;. he it is who killed my son.. .&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Plato, Republic, II. 383<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When Thetis and Peleus got married<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Apollo stood up at the sumptuous wedding feast<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and blessed the bridal pair<\/em><br \/>\n<em>for the son who would come from their union.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Sickness will never visit him,&#8221; he said,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;and his life will be a long one.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>This pleased Thetis immensely:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the words of Apollo, expert in prophecies,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>seemed a guarantee of security for her child.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And when Achilles grew up<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and all Thessaly said how beautiful he was,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thetis remembered the god&#8217;s words.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>But one day some elders came in with the news<\/em><br \/>\n<em>that Achilles had been killed at Troy.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Thetis tore her purple robes,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>pulled off rings, bracelets,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>flung them to the ground.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And in her grief, remembering that wedding scene,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>she asked what the wise Apollo was up to,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>where was this poet who spouts<\/em><br \/>\n<em>so eloquently at banquets, where was this prophet<\/em><br \/>\n<em>when they killed her son in his prime?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>And the elders answered that Apollo himself<\/em><br \/>\n<em>had gone down to Troy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and with the Trojans had killed her son.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Constantine P. 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