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AN EPIC POEM
BY TORSTEN SCHWANKE
FIRST BOOK
THE ILIAD
THE PALLADIUM
SACRIFICE OF IPHIGENIA
DEATH OF CYGNUS
CASSANDRA
HECTOR'S DEATH
PENTHESILEA
DEATH OF PARIS
CASSANDRA'S DEATH
SECOND BOOK
THE ODYSSEY
CALYPSO
NAUSIKAA
CIRCE
LUSITANIA
The gods are indeed very jealous!
The celestials in the battle for Pergamos
Are already praised by the poet valiant,
But where is the prize of Dionysus?
O Liber! pass the pine-stick with vines,
Then I'll sing of thy friend's wandering life.
PENELOPE
And the breath drew into the night, rich with gloom,
And Menmosyne, pure and spotless,
Appeared, the pink pearl beautiful on her belly,
In a black skirt, to Phemios the singer,
With brown arm and ornamental silver clasp
And black veiled her hair long.
EVANTHE
ULYSSES IN HADES
Ulysses remembered the instruction of Circe
And stepped towards the entrance to the realm of the dead,
To find counsel in the subterranean,
In the abyss of the subterranean district
And also to see if Eros' fiery glow
And the green flood of Lethe lived beyond.
MINERVA
ULYSSES' WEDDING
THIRD BOOK
THE AENEID
TROY
DIDO
HADES
ROME
It seems to me that the gods are angry, the gods are furious,
Deny to Latium the high blessing,
They speak their wrath with thundering voices
And express their grief with rain.
How impious men walk the paths
Of the world, there is not one more consecrated
To the celestials, and none will lie down
At Jupiter's feet in time,
To become royal in eternity!