Tag: troy
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Poseidon’s Lament: A One-Act Play Inspired by E. P. Coleridge’s Translation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women
Apollo girded Troy with walls of limestone and I garnished his walls with the seas. My seas were the first to fail after Athena, far cleverer than I, taught the slighted Hellenes to tar their ships. She then guided Odysseus’ mind and Epius’ hand to build Troy a gift that would defeat Apollo’s walls: The…
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Herodotus’ Rhodipus or Sappho’s Sobriquet? A Close Reading of Jesper Svenbro’s “The Messon of the Island of Lesbos: Toponym as Evidence in the History of Ideas, or Introduction to Ten Poems from The Name of Sappho’s Daughter”
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Jesper Svenbro’s “First Prologus to the Charaxos-Poem” is the first in a series of poems dedicated to unraveling the identities of Sappho’s family members through their relationships to Anatolia, Lesbos, and the wider Mediterranean, including the enigma that is Doricha. It begins: Before the Charaxos-poem begins, a rich heiress on the island of Lesbos marries…