A small selection of poems inspired by antiquity.
Authors:
- William Bronk
- The Smile on the Face of a Kouros
- Charles Bryant
- A Day’s Riding
- Constantine Petrou Cavafy
- The Horses of Achilles, Thermopylae, Priest at the Serapeion, “The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down in Hades”, Athena’s Vote
- Michael Robert Collier
- Argos
- Peter Curman
- The Charioteer of Delphi
- Keki Nasserwanji Daruwalla
- The Poseidonians
- Andrew Davis
- A krater: Achilles and Ajax playing backgammon
- Joseph Fasano
- Odysseus
- Robert Frost
- Pan with Us
- Samuel John Hazo
- Poseidon and Others
- John Keats
- Ode on a Grecian Urn, On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, To Homer
- David Herbert Lawrence
- The Argonauts, The Greeks Are Coming!, Bavarian Gentians
- Lorentzos Mavilis
- Kallipáteira
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Archaic Torso of Apollo Robert Cameron Rogers
- A Sleeping Priestess of Aphrodite
- Angelos Sikelianos
- Anadyomenê (Aphrodite Rising), Calypso’s Song, On Acrocorinth, The Horses of Achilles, Frieze
- Alicia Elsbeth Stallings
- Argos, Odysseus’s Dog; The Charioteer
