RSS- Open Thread – 28 January 2023
- A good yarn by Electra Rhodes – TTG
- Tanks are on the way… finally – TTG
- A retired FBI agent is charged with crimes along with a former Soviet diplomat, and separately after getting mixed up with men from Albania and Bosnia
- “Civil War general’s remains come back to his hometown” – TTG
- Mick Ryan on Ukrainian tanks – TTG
- VA hospital to drop Confederate name – TTG
- In for maintenance – TTG
- The Santa Fe, New Mexico District Attorney will say on 19 January whether a criminal case will be brought against Alec Baldwin for the shooting death on a movie set
- “Ukraine credits local beavers for unwittingly bolstering its defenses” – TTG
Category Archives: Poetry
Antarah ibn Shaddad
“a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the Mu’allaqāt, the collection of seven “hanging odes” legendarily said to have been suspended in the Kaaba. The account of his life forms … Continue reading
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Aristophanes on Sending Poets to Meet Dead Poets in Hades
Aristophanes Fragment from Gerytades Athenaeus 12.551A (Loeb Aristophanes Fragments 156) Translated by Steven J. Willett Note 1: The setting of the play is Athens where an assembly of poets select Meletus to represent tragedy, Sannyrion comedy and Cinesias dithyramb for … Continue reading
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Archilochos Offers an Infamous Epode on Sexual Passion
Archilochos P. Cologne 7511 Translated by Steven J. Willett A Roman Copy of a Hellenistic Portrait Head of Archilochos Note 1: The Cologne 7511 epode is the longest poetic fragment we have of Archilochos of Paros c. 680-645BC. It was … Continue reading
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Tibullus Elegy I.2 Addresses the Door that Locks Him from Delia
Albius Tibullus Elegy I.2 Translated by Steven J. Willett Tibullus at Delia’s Home by Lawrence Alma-Tadema Note: Tibullus Elegy I.2 is another case of paraclausithyron (παρακλαυσίθυρον), where a poet is locked outside his lover’s home. Unlike Propertius’ I.6 version of … Continue reading
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Propertius Elegy I.16: A Door’s Comments on Lockedout Lovers
Propertius Elegy I.16 Translated by Steven J. Willett Note: The paraklausithyron (παρακλαυσίθυρον) is a motif in Hellenistic Greek elegies and especially in Augustan love poetry. The literal meaning is “lament besides a door,” from παρακλαίω, “lament beside”, and θύρα, “door”. … Continue reading
Propertius Elegy I.18: Grief in Woods from Cynthia’s Arrogance
Propertius Elegy I. 18 Translated by Steven J. Willett This is surely a deserted place and taciturn of grief, and Zephyr’s breeze retains an empty grove. Here it’s allowed to open covered pains with impunity if only desolate rocks can … Continue reading
Meleager’s Deep Love for Heliodora in Poems and her Epitaph
Translated by Steven J. Willett A.P. 5.143, A.P. 5 148, A.P. 5.155, A.P. 5.163 and A.P. 7.476 This is the grave stele of Hegeso c. 400BC with her father’s name Proxenos on the architrave. The stele is 5’2” in height … Continue reading
Dioscorides Elegy on an Act of Love to Engage ‘Woke’ Culture
Dioscorides Elegy A.P. 5.55 (G-P 5) Translated by Steven J. Willett Eros, Aphrodite and Two Lovers. This red figure skyphos came from the workshop of the Iliouperis Painter c 357~350 and is in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, … Continue reading
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A Temporary Farewell with an Original Poem: Bitter Honey
Antiwar Poem Bitter Honey by Steven J. Willett Siege of Troy that depicts from the left a violent horse chariot breaking through a gate, Athena urging them to ravage the Trojans, King Priam crouching in defeat, a warrior who killed … Continue reading
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Hölderlin Brod und Wein (Bread and Wine) Part 9.
Translated by Steven J. Willett Relief of Helios from the northwest pediment of the Temple of Athena in Ilion (Troy), c. 390BC~325BC. The relief was found by Heinrich Schliemann in 1872 and is now in the Pergamon-Museum, Berlin. Note: The … Continue reading
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