Bronze roasting tripods were long favorite prizes in ancient funeral games, and winning big in the Olympiad might touch off a small holocaust with a hecatomb of 100 oxen sacrificed and burned.
Yet the Classics record nothing rivaling the wave of wildfires ravaging the Peloppenese today. Forget the oxen. Thus far, half a hecatomb of Greeks have been immolated, and Athens awoke Sunday to flurries of oily ash from fires sweeping the olive clad hillsides around the ruins of Olympia
MISS HADES 2007?
A source close to the Hierophant says that although some of the blazes were certifiably ignited by the wrath of Olympian Zeus, Beijing has ominously neglected to ask that fire from heaven be passed along for torch lighting in 2008. Claiming a headache, the Dephic Oracle declined comment.
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