Tag: Poetry

  • Tiresias

    Tiresias

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    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 terror. There should be a copy of his book in…

  • Hercules and Dejanira.

    Hercules and Dejanira.

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    Mark
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    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 terror. There should be a copy of his book in…

  • Rome

    Rome

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    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,…

  • Roman Wall Blues

    Roman Wall Blues

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    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…

  • Sappho: Two new Poems discovered

    Sappho: Two new Poems discovered

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    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…