Category: Poetry
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Rome
urbs Roma manet semperque manebit (the city of Rome remains, and will always remain) Photograph: Temple of Faustina Palatine Hill You search in Rome for Rome? Oh traveller! In Rome itself there is no room for Rome, a corpse is all its churches put on show, the Aventine is its own mound and tomb. There,…
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Roman Wall Blues
W.H. Auden Over the heather the wet wind blows,I’ve lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose. The rain comes pattering out of the sky,I’m a Wall soldier, I don’t know why. The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,My girl’s in Tungria; I sleep alone. Aulus goes hanging around her place,I don’t…
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Midas in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Greed and Redemption
Ted Hughes 1930 -1998. Tales from Ovid, 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses, published by Faber and Faber Ltd 1997. Copyright Ted Hughes Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old…
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Sappho: Two new Poems discovered
Woman with Stylus, an ancient Roman fresco unearthed in Pompeii In the late 19th Century a series of excavations at an ancient rubbish dump in the city of Oxyrhynchus, around 100 miles south of Cairo, were undertaken that found some valuable papyrus scrolls that included a sizeable amount of long-lost poetry by the Greek poet…
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Ancient Tablet with Homer’s Odyssey: 3rd Century AD Discovery
The clay slab believed to date from 3rd century AD, that was recently discovered near the ancient Greek city of Olympia, is believed to be the earliest record of Homer’s incredible tale of the aftermath of the Trojan War, reported the AFP in Athens, in July 2018. Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient clay tablet engraved…
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The Odyssey by Homer – the first step
The following is an article written by Charlotte Higgins, the Chief Arts Writer of the Guardian newspaper, and was originally published in July 2015. She is the author of several books including Under Another Sky; Journey’s in Roman Britain ‘The sea that separates Odysseus from home was the lifeblood of ancient Greece. Homer’s story of…
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