Hunger never attacks the land, no sickness either,
that always stalks the lives of us poor men.
No, as each generation grows old on the island,
down Apollo comes with his silver bow, with Artemis,
and they shoot them all to death with gentle arrows.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 15, lines 457-461. Eumaeus begins his own story of how he was born into royalty on the idyllic island of Syrie. There is no hunger or sickness there and people just grow old and die a gentle death at the hands of god of archery Apollo and goddess of the hunt Artemis.