by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, ET, MO
Coldblooded Aegean “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9 “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern readers do not even...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AP
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 | Jul 5, 2020 | AR, ET, MO
Ancient Art Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “the ancients had not that conception of beauty separated from goodness which forms the basis and aim of aesthetics in our time” ~ Leo Tolstoy A moral pillar rises from...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, ME, SY
Ancient Greek, Then Church Latin, Symposium, Scriptorium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Readers of Greek poetry constituted an élite, as in the Middle Ages readers of Latin did.” ~ Michael...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AL, DE
Apollonian Loveliness in the Lands of Eos, Trailing Robes “He would delight his heart while gazing on Their men,” those ancients, the Ionians, This visitor to Delos. God-like brawn Made sons that later Macedonians Would urgently have coveted if they Had seen them...
