Some of you will remember me discussing this here some months ago. The poem with commentary is now done.
Dead Adonis.
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Hope you enjoy it. It's such a strange little poem, I felt it had to be better known.Kopio wrote:Looks great!! I printed up a version to read later on this evening with my cup of tea in my easy chair.
Cool. I realize it's hard for most of us to get a feel for quantitative meters, but it is part of the art of Greek and Latin poetry. I try to make it easier. It helps my commentaries that I find the metrical stuff interesting on its own. I'm just happy I found a nice package for LaTeX (the typesetting software I use) which does the metrical sigla nicely.Thanks for all the info on meter etc, I'll try reading it outloud just for kicks!
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This one? It'd think he'd stick with the bucolic poets, who have several Adonis songs among them.mingshey wrote:I, too, am very interested in this poem, since I had read about Adonis in J.Frazer's "The Golden Bough".
Perhaps I'll do one of the Naassene hymns next for you, mingshey, to accomodate your interest in the gnostics...
ν/ομος ἦν γενικὸς τοῦ παντὸς ὁ πρωτότοκος νόος, ὁ δὲ δεύτερος ἦν τοῦ πρωτοτόκου τὸ χυθὲν χάος
The law of the genesis of all was the firstborn nous,
and the second was the chaos shed by the firstborn.
And such a funky meter, too. (Well, not that funky, evidently, in the Imperial period).
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