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Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2022

M/M: Two Poems on the Myth of Hyacinthus: Anthologia Latina 167-168

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While practicing discus, Hyacinthus encountered a life-altering event; The discus he’d thrown struck and split open his temples. Apollo was ...
Friday, June 24, 2022

M/M: Our Hearts Will Light the Way, A Fragment from Valerius Aedituus

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Our Hearts Will Light the Way: An Early Roman Poet to His Boyfriend Name : Valerius Aedituus Date :  1st century BCE Region ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2022

M/M: Kisses Mixed With Wine, Martial 11.26

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  Name : Martial Date : c. 40 – 100 CE Region : Bilbilis, Hispania [modern Spain] Citation : Epigrams 11.26 NOTE: ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

W/W: Double Harness, Sappho fr. 213

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Name : Sappho Date : d. 570 BCE Region : Lesbos [modern Greece] Citation : Fragment 213 One of the most powerful sy...
Monday, May 9, 2022

In Praise of Sappho: Demetrius, De Elocutione III.166-167

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Sappho sings about beauty while using beautiful words. She is sweet, and as she sings about love and springtime and halcyon birds, she weave...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

M/M: Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: Cicero, de Natura Deorum I1.79

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Name :  Cicero Date :  106 – 43 BCE Region :  Rome [modern Italy] Citation :   On the Nature of the Gods, 1.79 For th...
Sunday, January 9, 2022

I'll Be Your Anything: The Genderfluid God Vertumnus, Propertius, E. 4.2

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Vertumnus  Boasts of His Abilities Name :  Propertius Date :  50 – 15 BCE Region :   Assisium [modern Italy] Citation :    ...