Poetry Archive
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Up at a Villa, Down in the City? Four Epigrams of Martial
Posted on February 24, 2013 | No CommentsIt did not seem to us that rendition into the rhyming couplets of, say, an Alexander Pope from an earlier age or a James Michie from our own, or into the more contemporary free-verse style of a Palmer Bovie, would offer any more faithful a guide to Martial than the sort of fidelity we were aiming for. Especially for a readership coming from a background in modern English poetry, it seemed to us that a translation which attempts to simulate the discipline and constraints of the elegiac couplets, the hendecasyllabics, the limping iambic trimeters, and so on, of Martial's original poems might have real value. -
Hector and Iliad VI
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsHomer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people. -
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus -
Ramses and Rebellion: Showdown of False and True Horus
Posted on January 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe paper gives an overview of what is known about the shadowy figure Mehy (dyn. 19) and adds a hypothesis of what became of him. -
Young Achilles in the Roman World
Posted on October 11, 2012 | No CommentsAchilles is the only epic hero whose life can be followed quite literally from the cradle to the grave -
Patriotism and some related aspects of Roman character
Posted on September 13, 2012 | No CommentsRome levelled her subjects in crashing, shattering defeat and then lifted them up to share a pride in her that could capture the discriminating Jewish intelligence of a Paul. Her supreme victory came when the superiority and desirability of her civilization were admitted among civilized men. -
The construction of the image of Peace in ancient Greece: a few literary and iconographic evidences
Posted on August 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe treaty known as the Peace of Nicias, signed between Athens and Sparta, in March of 421 BC, marked the first truce in one of the bloodiest wars of the Greek civilization, the Peloponnesian War. -
The female body in Latin love poetry
Posted on August 16, 2012 | No CommentsMy study examines the female body -
ARABIC CONFLUENCE FROM CONSTANTINE TO HERACLIUS: The Preparation for a 7th Century Religio-Racial Explosion
Posted on July 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper's argument is purposeless without the reader knowing the seventh century events of the so-called explosion of Islam, and the interpretation of which I find so contentious. Thus a brief description of the episode is necessary. -
The Landscape and Language of Korinna
Posted on July 8, 2012 | No CommentsThe poetry of Korinna, who tradition tells us hailed from Tanagra or Thebes, is known for its strong local flavor.
