Nastes Poem by Douglas Scotney
Nastes
Named Nastes*
after the forests on Mt Phthires,
where he lived,
the leader of the wild-speaking Carians
waged war wearing gold like a girl.
'He thinks it will save him, '
in his Greek, does Homer say.
Achilles of the swift feet killed him
in a river,
perhaps the full-of-blood Scamander.
The gold went godlike Achilles
swift-footed way.
* from the Greek for 'dense'
Perhaps Achilles didn't need Agamemnon's gold.
There's a lot of dispossession of the dead-in-battle in The Iliad
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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8/2/2025 2:02:38 AM # 1.0.0
Thank you for this piece of history. A lot has changed in the centuries though there is still greed.