by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AN, PH
An Ancient Greek Trinity In Athens Love was placed in honor by Athena. There beside chaste wisdom, love Was set up on a plinth. The Greeks placed high In their gymnasia that god above Their bodies practicing for ideal power. Accompanying love there in that place...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2020 | AE, AN, ES
Ancient Art Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the ancients had not that conception of beauty separated from goodness which forms the basis and aim of aesthetics in our time” ~ Leo...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | Ho
Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin, Symposium, Scriptorium “Readers of Greek poetry constituted an élite, as in the Middle Ages readers of Latin did.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 13 “The symposiasts drank rather too much watered wine, wore crowns,...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | AN, DE
Apollonian Loveliness in the Lands of Eos, Trailing Robes “He would delight his heart while gazing at Their men,” those ancients, the Ionians, This visitor to Delos. They begat Their children later. Macedonians Would jealously desire them though if they Had seen...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2020 | AR
Ars Poetica Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The word ‘classic’ itself . . . derives from the Latin word classicus which referred to recruits of the ‘first class’, the heavy infantry in...
