Tuesday, Dec 25, 2007

Ovid's Metamorphoses - Book XIII - Argument between Ulysses and Ajax Over the Armor of Achilles - Suicide of Ajax

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After the death of Achilles and his funeral games a decision must be made as to who will received the magnificent armor and shield. Hear the verbal battle of Brawn (Ajax) against Brains (Ulysses). When the decision goes against him, Ajax commits suicide. From his blood sprang a red flower which bore on its leaves the initial letters of his name Ai (Aias).

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Saturday, Dec 15, 2007

Troilus and Criseyde: Book I - Lines 1 to 266 - Chaucer

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Troilus and Criseyde is Geoffrey Chaucer's poem in rhyme royal re-telling the tragic love story of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and Criseyde.

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Saturday, Dec 01, 2007

The Lays of Ancient Rome - Battle of Lake Regillus

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Thomas Babbington Macaulay's fine poem detailing the third and final attempt of the exiled king Tarquin the Proud to reclaim his position in Rome. This battle marks the breaking of the 30 city Latin League by the Romans.

At the Lake Regillus Battle, the Romans were led by a dictator, A. Postumius Albus, with Titus Aebutius as master of the horse, and helped by the mythological twins, the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on horseback.

The poem celibrates the aniversary of the Battle on the Ides of Quintilis (July for us post Julians)

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