June 2003

Ambrose of Milan, The ring of Gyges * Boethius, His mourning moved the depths of hell * Erigena, By His seeing and running all things are made * Hugh of St. Victor, Learn gladly from everyone * Meister Eckhart, Entirely within, entirely without * Nicolaus Cusanus, Incorruptible certainty of mathematical signs

Virgil, To return and view the cheerful skies * Horace, Be resigned to greatness * Ovid, Achilles' death - Thunder-struck from Heaven * Pliny the younger, Purity and refinement

Hoelderlin, The God is near, and hard to grasp - Hyperion's song of destiny * Schiller, A glorious humanity * Heidegger, Through a foundational poetic and noetic experience of Being * Rilke, Ein Wehn im Gott * Goethe, Who yearns for the impossible I love * T. S. Eliot, The historical sense * Dostoyevsky, Constantinople can not but belong to Russia! * Virginia Woolf, They sang from trees in the meadow of life, Aeschylus translated brings despair

D. Solomos : Hymn to Liberty & Free Besieged * Romanos Melodos : Rejoice O bride unmarried * Maximus Confessor : He divided wisely the ages & Nothing is empty of the Holy Spirit * St. Symeon : When shall the Day of the Lord come? * Origen : Let our whole life be a life of prayer

LINKS

Virginia Woolf's 1929 "Eulogy to words: Words don't live in dictionaries, they live in the mind" (BBC, 7'29'') - needs RealPlayer.

A history of modern Greek literature, in English, four pdf files, 2 MB each (right click to save them to your disk): I, II, III, IV. * Achilles' life from the sources, and illustrated with ancient and modern paintings. * Solomos poesie in lingua italiana * The Ancient Olympics.