Taphians
In Homeric Greece, the islands of Taphos (Τάφος) lay in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania in northwestern Greece, home of seagoing and piratical inhabitants, the Taphians (Τάφιοι). Penelope mentions the Taphian sea-robbers when she rebukes the chief of her suitors, and it is disguised as Mentes, "lord of the Taphian men who love their oars," that Athena accepts the hospitality of Telemachus and speeds him on his journey from Ithaca to Pylos. The Taphians dealt in slaves.
By the time of Euripides, the islands were identified with the Echinades: in Euripedes' Iphigeneia at Aulis (405 BCE), the chorus of women from Chalcis have spied the Hellenes' fleet and seen Eurytus who "led the Taphian warriors with the white oar-blades, the subjects of Meges, son of Phyleus, who had left the isles of the Echinades, where sailors cannot land." Modern scholars, such as the editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, identify the island of Taphos as the island of Meganissi (Meganísi) just east of the larger island Lefkada (Leucas).
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Your Country Is Shit
by: Defiancehow the fuck can you have pride in a country
how empty,ignorant and blind do you gotta be
when you fly your filthy fucking flag
your saluting n empty,wortless,useless farce
yur saluting racism
from the day the country started
it's been a part of it
and your saluting your own oppressor
and if your that fucking stupid
you deserve everything you get
your country is shit
your country is total shit and you're fat
with pride as you as you swallow every bit of it
i hope you go first in a war you've pay for
and i hope you still love your country when
your riddled with bullets in foreign country
showerd with bombs and left for dead
so fly their flag
and keep swallowing their shit
i'll never be proud or be supporting it
and i hope one day you all get your chane
as you die for freedom
the power is still in their hands
your country is shit
and you're all fucking shitif your
ignorant enough to believe it and support it
i hope you go first in a war you pay for
and think your protecting freedom when
you're killig innocent women and children
preserving capitalism
for the ones that stay in power
preserving your right to pay taxes
dying for the right to be kept in line
i hope that one day you all get your chance
as your dying for freedom