#ancientgreekpoetry | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

highon-psilocybin · 8 months

Text

❝ Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again. ❞

Homer, The Iliad

#homer #theillad #quotes #ancientgreekpoetry #poetry

4 notes · View notes

cosmicspiritauntie · 1 year

Photo

SUCH a joy getting to meet CV aka @art_of_the_zodiac irl today to get ready for our IG LIVE CHAT this Sunday Feb 12th at 7pm. Set your calendars to hear us talk all things Orphic and astrological, with a special emphasis on getting to know the planets through Ancient Mediterranean poetry. #livechat #orpheus #orphichymns #orphica #ancientpoetry #planetaryhymns #astrology #ancientastrology #hellenisticastrology #ancientmagic #planetarymagic #animism #relationalastrology #poetry #ancientgreekmythology #ancientgreekpoetry #cosmology #newcosmology #ancientcosmology (at New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coadr-duSrm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#livechat #orpheus #orphichymns #orphica #ancientpoetry #planetaryhymns #astrology #ancientastrology #hellenisticastrology #ancientmagic #planetarymagic #animism #relationalastrology #poetry #ancientgreekmythology #ancientgreekpoetry #cosmology #newcosmology #ancientcosmology

2 notes · View notes

latinandlattes · 4 years

Photo

20.09.18 || I just finished up the first two weeks of online classes and oh my, are they stressful. I only taking three courses this term and I feel like I’m taking six! Does anyone else feel like online classes are more difficult than in-person classes?

This year I am a T.A. for the first time ever! This weekend will be used to brush up on my Greek grammar so that I can be the best for my students.

*All photos are mine*

8K notes · View notes

wanderinwordsandsoul-blog · 9 years

Text

my feelings about Catullus is that he’s a little dangerous, I think there’s an intensity, and he has life to work through - he needs to breathe and find an outlet.

XD perspectives on obscure Greek classical poets ahah. poems written in class instead of notes

Catullus

Catullus falls. In love. In life.

In a moment, a heartbeat of both. And when he falls, his life is both over and begun.

And the world changes colour It’s center shifts in the breath When he meets her eyes.

Passion courses Feel alive. Feel lost. In sensation, in slumber.

Darkness touches his soul with the soft hands of love and He’s doomed in the moment That he feels.

But oh, to be doomed - The sensation of surrender, A fall to feeling That like a tidal wave Sweeps away all Sanity.

He knows what is happening But can’t fight the change He sees in an instant His ruin.

It’s in her touch. He falls.

Sappho could live A lifetime in love, But he lives A heartbeat in fear.

Take senses from Him Takes power from him.

Breathe. He can’t. Breathe. Breath taken from his lungs.

Why does he feel the way he does It scares, it’s his ruin.

He looks into love and in it Sees ruin.

~

Ruin

His passion thunders wildly, Keep it at reign Like the hoofbeat of horses That shakes the earth, Don’t let it Run away from you Consume you.

In fire In sound In feeling

It’s beyond him - Wrap your world in tight wire, Bind it up close and strong Hold it in Don’t let

Your chaotic darkness See light, It will ruin you.

Catullus, It will ruin you.

~

Demons

You are my lover or you are my ruin? You hold the fate of my life in your eyes.

I’m tormented by The demon of my passion. It blinks at me With tongues of fire And tempts me to darkness and ruin.

I love you But that is my death, I’m torn.

I hate that. I love you.

It’s derailed my plans, My carefully laid plans, My course was drawn out, Like stones in a cobbled street - I knew the steps of this dance, And you

Unearthed and flipped me.

I’m lost.

#catullus #ancientgreekpoetry #reflection #class #university #words #writing

0 notes

cosmicspiritauntie · 1 year

Photo

It’s heeeeeeere! Just in time for all your astrological/magic/witchy Saturn in Pisces needs. Link in biome or stories. #orphichymns #orphica #orpheus #cosmology #cosmos #astrology #hellenismos #greekmythology #ancientmagic #ancientastrology #hellenisticastrology #ancientmysteries #esoteric #esoterica #orphicmysteries #kronos #saturn #saturninpisces #timespacecontinuum #spacetimecontinuum #aion #classicsmemes #greekmythologymemes #cronus #chronus #time #ancientpoetry #poetrytranslations #ancientgreekpoetry #greekpoetry (at Space Time Continuum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYHp-dOF43/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

7 notes · View notes

cosmicspiritauntie · 1 year

Photo

For this new moon in Pisces, a reminder that my NEW TRANSLATION of the Orphic Hymn to the Moon (with audio files and part 1 of my commentary) is available to paid subscribers to my substack. Perfect for new moon rituals or just to indulge in poetry that captures the beauty and wonder of our living cosmos. The commentary details the esoteric material found in the Ancient Greek that’s inaccessible in other translations. There’s profound and surprising truths hidden in this hymn that is gorgeous poetry in its own right! You know where to find the lynx #newmoon #newmooninpisces #moon #luna #lunar #lunarpoetry #moonpoems #lunarmagic #moonmagic #orphic #orphichymns #orphica #orphism #orpheus #naturepoetry #naturepoems #naturalworld #esoteric #esoterica #esotericpoetry #poetry #ancientpoetry #crescentmoon #ancientgreek #translations #ancientgreekpoetry (at Qatar) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2ZxSEOkbV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

2 notes · View notes