#Sabines

[vagorecuerdo]

"Fue un placer habernos amado, besado. Fue un placer habernos roto el corazón."

~ Jaime Sabines.

[trogo-auto-egocratico]

Espero curarme de ti en unos días. Debo dejar de fumarte, de beberte, de pensarte. Es posible. Siguiendo las prescripciones de la moral en turno. Me receto tiempo, abstinencia, soledad.

¿Te parece bien que te quiera nada más una semana? No es mucho, ni es poco, es bastante. En una semana se puede reunir todas las palabras de amor que se han pronunciado sobre la tierra y se les puede prender fuego. Te voy a calentar con esa hoguera del amor quemado. Y también el silencio. Porque las mejores palabras del amor están entre dos gentes que no se dicen nada.

Hay que quemar también ese otro lenguaje lateral y subversivo del que ama. (Tú sabes cómo te digo que te quiero cuando digo: «qué calor hace», «dame agua», «¿sabes manejar?», «se hizo de noche»... Entre las gentes, a un lado de tus gentes y las mías, te he dicho «ya es tarde», y tú sabías que decía «te quiero»).

Una semana más para reunir todo el amor del tiempo. Para dártelo. Para que hagas con él lo que quieras: guardarlo, acariciarlo, tirarlo a la basura. No sirve, es cierto. Sólo quiero una semana para entender las cosas. Porque esto es muy parecido a estar saliendo de un manicomio para entrar a un panteón.

Jaime Sabines.

Espero curarme de ti.

[illustratus]

The Rape of the Sabine Women by Sebastiano Ricci

[anaperu05]

Enero 29.

Tu amor, mi amor, es eje, centro, causa y efecto. Principia y termina en sí mismo. Es, como la existencia, un círculo; como la muerte, como el olvido.

(…)

Estoy, estás en mí, y de repente muero. Un viento como de presagios -ardida locura- me arrebata: y te pierdo; y me alejo irremediablemente a buscarte en todas la mujeres que encuentro, a distinguirte, a identificarte con La Mujer.

Porque tú eres más que tú a veces: eres un concepto, una imagen, lo genérico, lo específico del sexo.

Perdóname si creo ofenderte, a veces, cuando piso una flor.

Perdóname también el que te quiera como a mí mismo; porque me soy infiel, porque me engaño.

Pero yo habría de ser otro, y tú otra, para que fuera distinto nuestro amor... Y no quiero yo que sea distinto. Está bien así, de llama y viento, de ternura y de remanso y muerte.

Acaso es triste el irse... pero sin el irse no hay el volver. Sin morir no hay resucitar.

Déjame que te quiera así como a mí mismo; que me vaya de ti como me voy de mí, sin esperanza, por la esperanza; del amor al olvido, del olvido al amor, en el pan diario de la muerte.

Jaime Sabines |Cartas a Chepita|

[ricmant]

Tú-yo-nosotros... Nosotros no importamos nada. Somos un accidente en el amor; nomás un accidente —una caída de piedra, el vuelo de una hoja, un lamento.

Los amorosos - Jaime Sabines

Vía ricmant

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Jane von Mehren

11 January 2023

The highly civilized Etruscans had a huge impact on the city’s eventual geography, architecture, government, trade, and agriculture.

They created excellent schools to which rich Romans sent their sons, much as they would later send them to Greek institutes.

By the sixth century B.C., some of Rome’s most famous institutions, from the Forum to the Senate, were in existence but even the most reputable historians — including Fabius, Livy, and Plutarch — started their accounts of the empire in legend.

Legendary beginnings

The story of Rome’s founding begins in Alba Longa, the first “city” of Latium, a region in central western Italy, occupied by Latins.

The area had been inhabited since the Bronze Age by farming communities and was known to the ancient Greeks, which is perhaps why Aeneas, a Trojan prince, is said to have established it around 1150 B.C.

According to legend, in Alba Longa, two of Aeneas’s descendants, the brothers Amulius and Numitor, fought over who would rule.

Amulius triumphed, killing Numitor’s sons and exiling his daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal Virgin.

Through divine intervention, she gave birth to the twins Romulus and Remus.

Threatened by these potential claimants to his throne, Amulius beheaded Rhea Silvia and abandoned the babies in the river Tiber.

Miraculously, a she-wolf rescued and cared for the boys until a shepherd, Faustulus, adopted them, raising them on the Palatine Hill, located in modern-day Rome.

The legend goes on to say that the brothers established the city of Rome on the banks of the Tiber River, where it was narrow enough for crossing and the hills provided a good defensive position.

The land between the hills, however, was quite marshy and not all that fertile.

The twins soon quarreled about the city’s exact boundaries and Romulus killed Remus.

Romulus, along with the outlaws and criminals he recruited, invited neighboring tribe the Sabines, who had resisted intermarrying with the Romans, to a fête.

During the merriment, Romulus raised his cloak signaling his men to seize and abduct the young Sabine women.

As the origin story goes, being Roman wives suited the women and they stopped the Sabine men from battling the Romans when they came to recapture them.

In the end the Sabines remained in Rome as part of the new city.

Influences in the area

Archaeological evidence tells us that Rome’s actual origins were less dramatic.

The first Romans were Latin farmers and shepherds living in small village huts on the Esquiline and Palatine hills.

The Sabines, a tribe living to the north, divided soon after the city’s founding, and some of them came south and united with Rome’s people.

Rome remained relatively primitive until the 600s B.C., when the Etruscans, who controlled a series of city-states to the north, began taking control of the city.

Kingdom of Rome

While modern scholars discount some of the accounts of ancient Roman historians, they agree that during the first phase of its history — from approximately 753 to 509 B.C. — Rome was ruled by kings.

According to these writers, Romulus was the first, succeeded by Numa Pompilius, a Sabine, and in 616 B.C., by an Etruscan named L. Tarquinius Priscus.

Kings had almost absolute power, serving as administrative, judicial, military, and religious leaders. A senate acted as an advisory council.

The king chose its members, who became known as patricians, from the city’s leading families.

Unlike later monarchs, Roman kingship was not inherited.

After a king died, there was a period known as an interregnum, when the Senate chose a new ruler, who was then elected by the people of Rome.

The king-elect needed to obtain approval of the gods and the imperium, the power to command, before assuming his throne.

Etruscan influences

The Etruscans ruled a loose confederation of city- states that stretched from Bologna to the Bay of Naples.

It remains unclear where they originated, but they used a version of the Greek alphabet and some ancient sources describe them as coming from Asia Minor.

Around 650 B.C., they were already dominant in the region and took control of Rome, wanting its strategic position on the Tiber.

Under Etruscan kings, Rome grew from a series of villages into a proper city.

The Etruscans drained the marshes around the city, constructed underground sewers, laid out roads and bridges.

They established the cattle market, Forum Boarium, as well as Forum Romanum, the central market and meeting place that evolved into the heart of the empire.

Toward the end of this period of Etruscan influence, the first temple of Jupiter was built on the Capitoline Hill.

This temple, although rebuilt many times, became the symbol of Rome’s power.

Founding the Republic

The era of Roman kings ended in 509 B.C., when the Romans supposedly expelled the last Etruscan king, L. Tarquinius Superbus, in another mythicized event.

As recounted by historians, including Livy, the son of Tarquinius Superbus, Sextus, raped at knifepoint the noblewoman Lucretia, wife of the king’s great nephew.

Lucretia, feeling that her honor and virtue had been lost, committed suicide.

Her uncle Brutus swears to avenge her and commits to revolution and the expulsion of the monarchy.

To the Roman people, her story represents the tyrannical powers of the monarch on the state, and so the saga of Lucretia is cited as the event that spurred the Roman Republic into being.

In place of the monarchy, Romans established a republic, which lasted until 30 B.C.

Over the course of nearly five centuries, Rome became a dominant Western power, seizing territory throughout the Mediterranean, creating an enormous and efficient army, and learning how to administer its vast provinces.

NOTE:

The traditional date for the founding of Rome is 21 April 753 BC.

[aitan]

“Non so se è stanchezza, maturità o rassegnazione, ma ormai ci sono cose che non mi va più di discutere.”

È una frase di Jaime Sabines (1926-1999), poeta e politico messicano di origini libanesi; anche se a qualcuno potrà ricordare Jep Gambardella e Paolo Sorrentino (Napoli, 1970).

“No sé si es cansancio, madurez o resignación, pero hay cosas que ya no quiero discutir más”, diceva in lingua originale.”

Da aitanblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/la-banana-di-cattelan-e-la-napoli-di-sorrentino/

[stljedi]

[quetzalnoah]

Yo creí estar armado cuando te conocí

supuse esperanza en tu récord de derrotas

y de todas las historias que hay en el mundo

aprendí a tener la osadía de alegrarme

con la que tú y yo tuvimos,

yo creí estar armado cuando te conocí

como ese juego de cubitos de madera

que se tambalea en la mesa

y de pronto sacaste el que equilibraba

toda la torre para que todo cayera

y yo me transformara en un desmadre

pero todo está bien

yo creí estar armado cuando te conocí

y me sirvió para reconocer

mis flancos frágiles y que muchas veces

a la voluntad también

le salen nudos en la garganta

la melancolía es la moneda

con la que pagamos los buenos momentos

yo creí estar armado cuando te conocí

pero me faltaban piezas

y ahora que las he vuelto a juntar todas

creo que soy de nuevo la torre

de cubitos de madera recién sacada

de su cajita

estoy de nuevo armado

pero sé que alguien colocara cubitos

arriba y de pronto me iré tambaleando

para caer otra vez

no tengo miedo

es divertido y no por masoquismo

es que cuando uno se arma

encuentra maravillas en sí mismo. "Curarse con poemas", Quetzal Noah

[masteralpha-ares]

Morimos en el sitio que le he prestado al aire para que estés fuera de mí...

[cortowskibook]

«Ella dijo que se iría y que se llevaría todo que todo lo que era suyo. Y no me llevó. Y yo era suyo».

- Jaime Sabines

[illustratus]

Rape of the Sabine women by Ulpiano Checa

[anaperu05]

Entonces levantaron la tapa del féretro y me echaron el último puñado de tierra. Yo, por fin, me quedé a solas contigo.

Cartas a Chepita

[alfabetas]

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