Erato was one of the nine Muses, the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song and dance. In the Classical era, when the Muses were assigned specific literary and artistic spheres, Erato was named Muse of erotic poetry and mime, and represented with a lyre.
The Mousai (Muses) were originally goddesses of music, poetry, eloquence and song. In the late classical era their role was expanded to encompass a variety of arts including rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, geography, history and astronomy. The nine books of the Herodotus'Histories, for example...
I’d highly recommend this anthology for poetry readers. Besides gorgeous and clever use of language, the power of story wasn’t lost on Heaney and his tellings ofAntigone(titled herein as “The Burial at Thebes,)Beowulf,Philoctetes(titled “The Cure at Troy,”) and others are gripping and...
Apollowas the name of the son of Zeus and Leto and twin brother of Artemis. He was the god of music, the sun, medicine, and poetry, amongst others. In the U.S., Apollo is well known. It’s the name of a NASA space program between 1961 and 1972 that put the first humans on th...
Poetry flourished in Alexandria in the third century BC. The chief Alexandrian poets were Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes. Theocritus, who lived from about 310 to 250 BC, invented a new genre of poetryÑbucolic, a genre that the Roman Virgil would later imitate in his ...
Euterpe is considered to be the muse who is responsible for music, song, and lyric poetry. In Ancient Greece, all three of these things were usually linked. As a result, she was always associated with the Aulos, a musical instrument popular in Ancient Greece that resembles a flute. The pa...
power. Her reiterations in poetry are similarly rife with reflections on themes of longing, eternal love, and the silent observation of the human condition, presenting Selene as not only a celestial observer but also as a timeless confidante to the nocturnally inclined sufferers of love and ...
The Philosophizing Muse: The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman PoetryFraňo, PeterFilozofia
Footnote 7 When the term was adopted by Latin authors, it denoted the imitation of Greek constructions in Latin poetry, mainly Virgil.Footnote 8 The humanists took over this ‘linguistic’ meaning of the term, and Ἑλληνισμός/Hellenismus for them referred to the Greek language...
, The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry (100-120). Berlin: De Gruyter.Maurizio, L. 1995. "Anthropology and spirit ... L Maurizio 被引量: 0发表: 1995年 The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the co...