Although many may despise Cicero’s high style, I find it really rewarding most of the time. His ample and refined prose but also his tendency to (a balanced!) magnificence reach […]
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Theogony 22-34 (Contributed by Sarah Cassidy)
Hesiod’s enchanting proem provides a great insight into the tradition of divine inspiration in Greek poetry and also presents us with some interesting hermeneutical issues, such as the exact meaning […]
Callimachus Ep. 2 (Contributed by Nicholas Debenham)
I learnt Cory’s translation of Callimachus’ poem by heart sixty years ago and wrote it just now, I am glad to say, from memory. This poem carries the essential Classical […]
ΚΑΛΛΙΠΑΤΕΙΡΑ by Λόρεντσος Μαβίλης (1860-1912) (Contributed by Armand D’Angour)
This modern Greek poem takes up the ancient Greek story of Kallipateira, a noblewoman who infiltrated herself into the Olympic Games dressed as a man to watch her son compete […]