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dierckxjan
on 6th Jun 2004
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Sappho takes a special place among the poets of Antiquity. Plato already said that she was the tenth Muse. It's really refreshing to read her poems. They are vivid and she needs only a few words to describe human feelings. She calls solitude:'this icy numbness of being alone'. One of my favorite poems is 'The wedding of Hektor and Andromache'. In this translation (the poems have no titles) it starts with 'A messenger came running... '. I find this poem one of the most vivid descriptions in ancient poetry. It gives an almost journalistic account of the homecoming of Hektor and Andromache:'At once, the young men of the town hitched the mules up to the big-wheeled carriages ... In the streets people offered bowls spiced with cinnamon and jars of myrrh and incense'. (It's a pitty there are only a few rather poor illustrations).
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