‘Ogygia’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society February 29, 2024 Beauty, Homer, Poetry 12 Comments . Ogygia Ogygia was green and fair, A dreamy vision to behold, Beyond the wars for blood and gold, Far from the weight of mortal care. Afloat a luminescent sea That great Poseidon held aloft, The waves came to...
Readings of Odyssey Book 1 (Solot), A.M. Juster’s East African Proverbs, and Stellinga The Society January 26, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Homer, Poetry, Readings 10 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S2VaIdhn3kg?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t99I9LcfEhs?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4P99bbEAh-0?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads ‘Odysseus Strings His Bow’ from Homer’s Odyssey, Solot Translation The Society December 11, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Homer, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTgWaNsnpE . . The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by Homer, translated by Mike Solot The cowherd, Philoetius,...
‘The Return to Ithaca’: Brian Yapko’s Poem Set to Music by Jeff Eardley The Society November 27, 2023 Homer, Love Poems, Music, Poetry 28 Comments . . Music by Jeff Eardley . . The Return to Ithaca by Brian Yapko This shall not be forever, This life spent on the sea. __I’m going to find my one true love And joined again we’ll be. I’ll risk...
‘Mrs. Cyclops’ and Other Odyssey Inspired Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society October 30, 2023 Homer, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 34 Comments . Mrs. Cyclops Ain’t really gonna leave. I’ll just pretend, Brontesa. Cy and I are bound. I simply Can’t bear to turn a blind eye to my mate--- Not even if our love-life’s off of late; Not even if his...
‘Homeric Hot or Not’: Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler The Society March 5, 2023 Homer, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Homeric Hot or Not (Hotness Ratings Out of 10) . 10 By birth divine and radiantly tressed And beautiful and of a charm possessed That turns men into pigs if she’s inclined, A better girl than Circe none...
‘Odysseus Begs?’ and Other Poetry by Bob Schildgen The Society February 13, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry, Satire 7 Comments . Odysseus Begs? He’s leaning on a Pluto niche machine: an ATM, balanced on his good leg— a fresh appearance in an ancient scene— a bandaged hand gropes slowly out to beg. Was he Odysseus, sail raised...
Athena Emboldens Telemachus: Book 1 of The Odyssey Complete Text, Translated by Mike Solot The Society September 15, 2022 Culture, Epic, Homer, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . The Odyssey Translator's Note: The Odyssey, Book 1, which exemplifies an essential feature of Homer's art as a storyteller, the way he composes the books of his epics as wholes, each with its own beginning,...
Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos: An Essay by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Essays, Homer, Poetry 6 Comments . Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s Saga,” one of the masterpieces of Icelandic literature, the eponymous hero composes a verse to...
Four Sonnets on Traditional Dance, by Evan Mantyk The Society November 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry 19 Comments . I. The Blacksmith God Forges Scenes on Achilles’ Shield after Homer’s Iliad Book 18 The hammer strikes! And glowing sparks fly out As Earth takes shape and then the flowing seas, The sun, the moon, the...
‘Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer’ by James A. Tweedie The Society June 22, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Homer, Poetry 9 Comments . Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer He stands enwrapped in luminous shadowed light, A woven cord of gold across his chest, Voluminous silk sleeves of purest white Contrast the deep-black...
Documentary on Pandemic Features The Iliad and SCP Member The Society July 12, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Homer, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video 6 Comments ...
On Oxford University’s Classics Department Proposing to Drop Homer and Virgil, by Ted Hayes The Society May 4, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Homer, Poetry 10 Comments Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now gives instruction In Western Civ destruction The classics?...
A Translation of ‘Hector and Andromache’ by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) The Society March 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry, Translation 4 Comments translation by Jonathan Shoulta Andromache Will you, my Hector, forever go away to where with unmatched hands Achilles makes Patroclus bloody off'rings? ____________________Who will teach your...
Five Clerihews for the Iliad, by Raymond C. Roy The Society August 5, 2019 Clerihew, Epic, Homer, Poetry 9 Comments A Clerihew is a four-line comic poem with a rigid rhyming scheme, aabb, but no metric requirements. It stands in stark contrast to the strict metric requirements with no rhyming scheme in the Iliad. This...
Odysseus Strings His Bow: Translation of Homer by Mike Solot The Society January 9, 2019 Culture, Homer, Poetry, Translation 27 Comments The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by Mike Solot The cowherd, Philoetius, quickly but quietly slipped out To fasten the gates of the courtyard. He...
Rediscovering Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ The Society October 24, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Education, Epic, Essays, Homer, Poetry 27 Comments by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for young Socrates, Alexander the Great, Roman emperors, William Shakespeare, and every serious...
Translation of the Iliad’s Beginning by J. Simon Harris The Society January 21, 2018 Culture, Education, Epic, Homer, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments Homer’s Iliad I.1-47. Translation in the epic hexameter, the meter of the Greek. Sing of the wrath, my goddess, of Peleus’ son Achilles, doomed and destructive, which gave the Achaeans numberless...
‘Penelope’s Postscript’ and Other Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 8, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry 23 Comments Penelope’s Postscript Uncounted days, wrung dry of tears— Lost wanderers do not return: So much for the departed years. Heap up my mangled hopes and fears, Leave Ithaka to mock and spurn Uncounted...
‘Three Trojan Perspectives’ by Reid McGrath The Society February 9, 2015 Culture, Homer, Poetry for E.E. Club Saw Reid I. Priam, Returning to the Ramparts He’d never say it to my face and yet I sense that Hector senses I’m washed up: too old, too soft. Not that he is the pup that...
‘Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer’ by Cees Wilerd Bui The Society August 19, 2014 Art, Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry 1 Comment In Rembrandt's scene of 1653, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, there is much that we can see amidst that musty sett(l)ing of gold dust that balances upon the old and new, upon the dark and light,...
‘The Trojan War’ by Evan Mantyk The Society July 9, 2013 Homer, Poetry 2 Comments The Trojan War has finished its long course. Achaeans won by sneaking past the vaulting walls As if they were a gift: a wooden horse. A decade done, at last the city falls! And yet the riches found were...
An Odysseus Sonnet Sequence by Jessica F. Smith The Society February 4, 2013 Homer, Poetry My Love, Penelope My love, Penelope, I'm incomplete– You are not here, and I feel so alone; Love is a chore, without you there's no heat, Only dust, mere air, for you're my blood and bone. Victory...
