Category Archives: Willett

Pindar Pythian 4 Ode, Arkesilas Chariot Race 462BC

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

    Pindar Pythian 4 Ode for Arkesilas of Cyrene, Chariot Race 426BC Translated by Steven Willett 仕事が全部終わったら戻ってきます   Pindar c. 518 (Cynoscephalae, Boiotia) ~ c. 438 (Argos) Roman copy of Greek statue 15th century BC   Note: In this … Continue reading →

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Giacomo Leopardi on His Lost Love

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

  La Sera del dì di festa (The Evening of the Holiday) Translated by Steven Willett   Leopardi's manuscript showing the opening of La Sera del dì di festa with corrections. First edition original 1820.   Note: This is the … Continue reading →

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Solon on Justice for Land and Suffering Citizens

Posted on February 6, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

  Solon Fr. 36. Pergit. Arist. (v. ad fr. 34) = L; hic accedit P. Berol. Translated by Steven Willett   ΗΟΡΟΣ ΤΕΣ ΟΔΟ ΤΕΣ ΕΛΕΥΣΙΝΑΔΣΙBoundary of the Road to Eleusis 5th Century BC   Note:  The "boundary markers" refer … Continue reading →

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Hölderlin’s “Sung Under the Alps” on God’s Presence

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

    Hölderlin's Sung Under the Alps (Unter den Alpen gesungen) Translated by Steven Willett   1/10/1793 Friedrich Hölderlin statue paying a visit to Schiller in Ludwigsburg   Note: Hölderlin visited the Swiss Alps in 1801. This is the one … Continue reading →

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Hyperion’s Song of Fate on Biden EO Fascist

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

    Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion's Song of Fate (Hyperions Schiksaalslied) Translated by Steven Willett   Hölderlin by Franz Carl Hiemer, 1792 Note: Hyperion's Song of Fate appeared in the second volume of Hölderlin's novel Hyperion in 1799. It should be … Continue reading →

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Xenophanes on a good banquet

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Steven J. Willett

Xenophanes Elegy Fragment 1 Ath. 11462c Translated by Steven Willett   Note: Xenophanes of Colophon c. 570~478BC was a philosopher and poet critical of polytheism.   For now the floor is spotless and spotless all our hands    and drinking … Continue reading →

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Tibullus Elegy I.3: A Chopin Nocturne on War

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Steven J. Willett

Translated by Steven Willett   Across Aegean waves Massalla, you'll sail without me,     yet thinking of me, I hope, you and your staff! Phaeacia now holds me back, sick in an unknown land     —if only black black Death … Continue reading →

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Tibullus I.10: Peace and Farming against War

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Steven J. Willett

Translated by Steven J. Willett [Please note that ….. indicates text missing from the Latin manuscript.]   Who was it, who first invented the terrifying sword?     How savage and truly iron-tempered he was. Then butchery for the race of … Continue reading →

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