“Don’t we say all helpless folk – the orphan, the stranger, the suppliant, who have nothing to bargain with and can only pray – are sacred to Zeus the Savior? The King must answer for them; he is next the god. For the serfs, the landless hirelings, the captives of the spear; even the slaves.”

“Don’t we say all helpless folk – the orphan, the stranger, the suppliant, who have nothing to bargain with and can only pray – are sacred to Zeus the Savior? The King must answer for them; he is next the god. For the serfs, the landless hirelings, the captives of the spear; even the slaves.”

— Mary Renault