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MASt@CHS – Summer Seminar 2021 (Friday, July 23): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion

2021.01.13 | By Rachele Pierini and Tom Palaima §1. The Summer session of the MASt@CHS seminars represented a unicum within our series. Although we used the usual formula of the MASt@CHS seminars (two presentations, each followed by a debate session), we experimented with some variations. §2. Another element… Read more

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To Zeus, by Carol Rumens

The Mixed Urn Storm-addict Zeus, we’re told on good authority, maintains two urns for forcing human fate. He flings handfuls from one, then the other – a slug of grief, and now some tinkling gold. If there’s any third, a mixed urn -- it’s us, poor contradictions, thrown together, trying… Read more

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CI Poetry Project, Recomposing Heroes

The God and the goat, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Apollo and Marsyas Go. Go before I change my mind, Is all He would have thought, and said, If not for the great glee He heard In how Marsyas gripped and played The thin, twig-tied pipes for the Lord Of Light, Prince of Gods, Apollo, The Core Verse incarnate, Father… Read more

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CI Poetry Project, Recomposing Heroes

Reverse Orpheus, reverse Eurydice, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Reverse Orpheus And saw his own death happen. But as a mending this time, a cleaning. They shoved his limbs together, Flailed off all the blood, Then dimmed into the distance Like the dots of an ellipsis. The shattered boulders rebounded, Rolled back up their ruts. The sea’s sea-lathered… Read more

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CI Poetry Project, Recomposing Heroes

On the end of the Iliad, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

They brandished their births like spears. Being there wasn’t enough. Their names Needed their fathers and their cities And their spears and the red air of Ilium. There’s Apisaon lying on his liver As it curdles and leaks out rib-mangled From his wound like a clicking tongue In froth,… Read more

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A purple ball: on Eros and Aphrodite, CI Poetry Project, Recomposing Heroes

The song of Nikaia, by Rachel Hadas

A translation of Nonnus, Dionysiaca 16.244–364 Content notification: God Dionysus, enamored with the nymph Nikaia, drugs her with river water transformed into wine and rapes her in her inebriated sleep. The Dryad, having mocked the god, slipped back into her tree. But Dionysus ardently pursued the maiden; he Was passionate from… Read more

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MASt@CHS – Summer Seminar 2021 (Friday, July 23): Summaries of Presentations and Discussion

To Zeus, by Carol Rumens

The God and the goat, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Reverse Orpheus, reverse Eurydice, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

On the end of the Iliad, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

The song of Nikaia, by Rachel Hadas

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