Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
The Plea of Orpheus (Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.14-39)
[audio:http://blogs.dickinson.edu/archive/images/the-plea-of-orpheus.mp3] perque leves populos simulacraque functa sepulcro Persephonen adiit inamoenaque regna tenentem umbrarum dominum pulsisque ad carmina nervis sic ait: ‘o positi sub terra numina mundi, in quem reccidimus, quicquid mortale creamur, si licet et falsi positis ambagibus oris vera loqui sinitis, non huc, ut opaca viderem Tartara, descendi, nec uti villosa colubris terna Medusaei […]