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Τιμωνιάς

Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Mοῦσα, κακότροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ
πλάγχθη ἄοικος, ἐπεὶ συκῆν οὔ πω κατέκοψε
πολλῶν δ’ ἀνθρώπων κακὰ ἤθεα πολλὰ κατέγνω
πολλὰ  δ’ ὅ γ’ εἰν ἄστει πάθεν ἄλγεα ὃν κατὰ θυμὸν
ἀρνύμενος ἣν μὲν συκῆν ἰδ’ ἑταίρων χύτραν
ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὣς αὑτόν γ’ ἐρρύσατο ἱέμενός περ
αὐτοῦ γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλωλε
νήπιος, ὃς κατὰ βοῦς ἰδὲ κ’ αἶγας καὶ ὃν πλοῦτον
ἤσθιε, αὐτὰρ ἑταῖροι ἀφεῖλον πάντα τὰ λοιπὰ
τῶν ἁμόθεν γε, θεά, χαριέντως εἰπὲ καὶ ἡμῖν

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Poetry From the September 2011 issue: Homage

Christopher KontonikolisChristopher Kontonikolis

Christopher Kontonikolis was born in Athens in 1981. He studied classics and is now completing a master’s degree in Byzantine literature at the University of Athens. He has composed poems in Greek and in Ancient Greek language and meter. This is his first publication in an American journal.

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Translated from Ancient GreekAncient Greek by Andrew BarrettAndrew Barrett

Andrew Barrett is a translator and musician who lives in Rochester, NY, where he is pursuing a Master of Arts in Literary Translation degree at the University of Rochester. He is currently translating a portion of Nonnus's Dionysiaca—a lush and expansive Ancient Greek epic from Late Antiquity. Excerpts from his translation of the Dionysiaca appeared in the third issue of Anomalous Press. In June of 2011, he had the honor of working on his translation of the Dionysiaca at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He has also translated poems by Modern Greek poet Harris Psarras.

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