verses from ancient drama

Crossroads over the Aegean

human soul remain the same through centuries and borders.

Armenio high school – Suat Terimer Anadolu Lisesi

2011 - 2013

Greek nature and verses from Greek ancient drama and epic poetry

O ever-blazing sun!

O ever-blazing sun!

O lightning of the

eternal Sire!

Can ye behold this

done

And tamely hide your

all-avenging fire?

Electra , Sophocles

Speeding to the brazen heaven …

Now the sun arose and

left the lovely mere,

speeding to the brazen

heaven,

to give light to the

immortals and to mortal

men on the earth,

the graingiver ..

Odyssey ,Homer rapsody 3

Ray of the sun …

Ray of the sun,

fairest light of all

those shining

on seven-gated Thebes,

at last you appeared,

O eyes of golden day,

coming over the

streams of Dirce .

Antigone , Sophocles

There beneath the trees …

There beneath the trees

Sleeping they lay, like wild

things flung at ease

In the forest ; one half sinking

on a bed of deep pine

greenery ; one with

careless head

Amid the fallen oak leaves ;

Bacchae , Euripides

the forest's loneliness…

All most cold

In purity not as thy tale was

told

Of wine-cups and wild music

and the chase

For love amid the forest's

loneliness.

Bacchae , Euripides

the unharvested sea …

Then he sped along the wave

like the cormorant,

that chaseth the fishes

through the perilous gulfs

of the unharvested sea,

and wetteth his thick plumage

in the brine

Odyssey , Homer book 5

Harbouring in caves …

Through woodland

caverns deep

And o'er the rocky steep

Harbouring in caves he

roams the wild alone,

With none to share his

moan.

Oedipus king ,Sophocles .

Fleet through the salt sea-air …

Come from the drift, the

rock-ridge, the glen!

Leaving the mountain bare

Fleet through

the salt sea-air,

Mover of dances to Gods

and to men.

Aias , Sophocles

those dark dancing rocks …

Oh how I wish that ship ,

the Argo had never sailed off

to the land of Colchis,

past the Symplegades,

those dark dancing rocks

which smash boats sailing

through the Hellespont.

Medea ,Euripides

Thus the whole day passed …

Thus the whole day passed

long till the setting of the

sun they feasted, nor did

their heart lack anything

of the equal feast, nor of

the beauteous lyre, that

Apollo held …

Iliad , Homer 1st rapsody

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