Tag: Ancient Greece

  • Myth – A world of the imagination

    Myth – A world of the imagination

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    “Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”– Aeschylus, Agamemnon Ancient Greeks generally did not have a real sense of their historical past, but they did have access to a huge reserve of fabulous tales of a very different universe, one full of great but flawed mortal heroes, mighty warriors, powerful…

  • A poem by Sappho

    A poem by Sappho

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    A Fayum mummy portrait, a painted portrait on wooden board attached to the body of an usually upper class person before burial in Roman Egypt.              Immortal Aphrodite, on your intricately brocaded throne,             child of Zeus, weaver of wiles, this I pray:             Dear Lady, don’t crush my heart             with pains and sorrows.           But come here, if ever before,             when you heard…

  • Erisychthon

    Erisychthon

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    Adam Cvijanovic (American citizen, born 1959) Erysichthon, oil on Masonite 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 gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their…