On The Acropol Of Asine Comments
In spite of centuries many, passed, it still stands here
over the large gulf they dominated and sailed from
for the long to Troia journey.
On its walls their sobs they hung
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Dimitrios, what about adding 'On The Acropol Of Asine' (both English & Greek texts) to 'Our Chains, Our Dreams - Part II.'?
I followed your advice to another reader, and went back to read Seferis after reading Acropel, and then reading Acropil again. Two sides of a coin? From Seferis I got: To be feasted on by maggots and the worms Life with all its glory - defunct Honest & possibly true. But I feel better leaning more to your point: it's the dead who keep world's values Again, honest and possibly true, with much more hope!
Thank yo so much, my dear for your kindness to follow the connections I had in mind.
This indeed a parade on the boulevard of eternity! What a vivid evocation of an ancient but still vital world. This could have been a lament for what has been lost, and it might have become a bitter lament as we recall to present awareness the lost glories of the past. B-U-T you do not surrender to that sense the past as un-recoverable, just shadows we can't connect with. Instead your bring a living tableau to our senses in all of its glory, and variety, the triumphs and defeats, the ravages of time and the victories of time. I was exhilarated reading this poem. I'm reminded of a critic who said Ezra Pound in his CANTOS wanted his readers to experience history, not just learn about it. That's what your poem did for me.
I wrote this poem as a contrapost to the poem of the Nobel winner G.Seferis The king of Asine one of the very few good poems of his.I had in mind a living tableauindeed and I'm so happy you, dear Daniel saw it in front of your wyes.
Asine, the ancient city of Greece still holds the vestiges of its one time glory! The artifacts excavated from there still speak volumes of its one time glory. Unfortunately it was plundered endlessly by foreign invaders...... Yet, it stays as a living memory of the great Cradle of Civilization.....! . As a Greek citizen, I can read your sense of angst as well as pride over what your empire has lost and what it could still retain despite the ravages of time! Great write!
Of notice that I started working as a professor; s assistant excavating the ancient oracle of Dodona.In all my life I kept that love to the ancient world which leads us today.Thank you, dear Lady.
Maybe Kelly are right to suppose a different future to mankind had the greek culture being left free before 2000 years to expand itself and not being forced under the toletarianism of east thought included that of the mythology of bible to be a servant to the political powers...
You have much to be proud of in your ancient country. What would the world be like if Greece was allowed to spread its culture and knowledge freely 2000 years ago.
Oh Kelly, it has spread it all over the world through first by Alexander's expedition to the East and then by the roman's absorbtion of it and that is why our world is a greek world in every aspect of life.Just to imagine take into notice that in the english vocabulary there are more than 90 thousand words, not to mention the way european languages are following to form the arguments and scepsis....If you find time do look up one of the very few good poems of G.Seferis refering to the The king of Asine To understand better mine.Thank you so much.
Freely! I suppose you mean the confrontation between the greek culture and that of the East included the bible's mythology and culture which imposed its toletarianism upon the free philosophical mind.Oh yes you are right.
Yes, much knowledge was lost/forbidden until the renaissance. I did read the poem you suggested and it did give additional insight.
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7/20/2025 3:17:30 PM # 1.0.0
no.. sorry.. your poem 'Sisyphus' will be in 'Our Chains, Our Dreams - Part II.'.. 'On The Acropol Of Asine' could be in a future ''Part III.''