#greek literature

[marydarkblacknoir]

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato, The Symposium

[flowerytale]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from “Report to Greco”, tr. by P. A. Bien

[luthienne]

George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Memory I" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[Text ID: I whispered: memory hurts wherever you touch it,]

[timetravelingtoamess]

Im reading the iliad for this first time and im going to die priam is out here like "who is that short, hairy man" and helens like "thats odysseus" and hes just like "damn thats right he was at my house"

[m1ssnovember]

[jinxed-ninjago]

in honor of the absolute insanity that was the lloyd vs antigone poll over at @most-tragic-character-tournament

[mothmanismymainman]

the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)

achilles:

patroclus:

helen:

diomedes:

hector:

odysseus:

andromache:

calchas:

paris:

bonus! clytemnestra:

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

FIGHT!

[daweyt]

Constantine P. Cavafy, from “Modern Greek Poetry; ‘The Bandaged Shoulder’”, tr. Kimon Friar.

[benvoolioo]

Alrighty class, just before we begin Book 22, I want to remind you it was not ‘based’ or ‘goated’ of Achilles to desecrate Hector’s corpse by dragging it through the dirt on the back of his chariot. The only ‘slay’ he ‘served’ was literally slaughtering half the Trojan army. 

[theoptia]

George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"

Text ID: The first thing God made is love / then comes blood / and the thirst for blood

[marydarkblacknoir]

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

Plato, The Symposium

[lepetitdragonvert]

Andromeda

Artist : Arthur Rackham

[luthienne]

George Seferis, from Collected Poems; "Last Stop" (tr. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

[feral-ballad]

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; "The Poet's Song"

[timetravelingtoamess]

I relate to odysseus because i, too, take ten years to complete something that should be done in 8 months as well as weep every single night