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Sappho, Poetry

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- Antigone (Sophocles)

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Sometimes tears bring comfort to my heart, but not for long; cold grief grows sickening.

Menelaus, The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson (via junawer)

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“Tell me about a complicated man.”

The Odyssey by Homer

Translated by Emily Wilson

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Painted garden fresco from Livia Drusilla’s villa.

Roman, 30-20 BC

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Aeschylus’ The Oresteia: Agamemnon (tr. Richmond Lattimore)

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Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again

HOMER, THE ILIAD.

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““OEDIPUS: Oblivion – what a blessing… for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.””

— Sophocles,from oedipus the king,trans.robert fagles.

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Fragment of an ancient Roman wall fresco depicting a winged Victory.  Artist unknown; late 2nd or early 3rd cent. CE.  Found on the Via Imperiale; now in the Museo delle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.  Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

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someone will remember us

                          I say

      even in another time

- Sappho, fragment 147 (trans. Anne Carson)

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The Odyssey of Homer

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Sappho 31

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“Everyone agrees that the young should be allowed to play around a little, and nature herself has been generous in supplying them with youthful passions; and if these passions should burst out into the open, so long as they do not upset anyone’s life or break up anyone’s home they are generally regarded as unproblematic.”

— Cicero, Pro Caelio

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ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἤδη ὥρα ἀπιέναι, ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀποθανουμένῳ, ὑμῖν δὲ βιωσομένοις· ὁπότεροι δὲ ἡμῶν ἔρχονται ἐπὶ ἄμεινον πρᾶγμα, ἄδηλον παντὶ πλὴν ἢ τῷ θεῷ

Plato, Apology

But now it’s time to leave; I leave for death, and you leave for life, but which of us is heading on to the better thing, only God can know.

(via labentiasidera)

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“aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, furtivos hominum vident amores (or how many stars, when the night is silent, see the secret loves of humans)”

— catullus 7

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bell-flower: Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia - Pompeii

Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia - Pompeii