Apollo and the Muses

05/03/2022

Phenomenal Girls retreat organized by the phenomenal Jill Chenault Wilson. Many thanks to Alicia Helm McCorvey for a special donation to fund these books, and to Jacalyn D. Carfagno for staffing our book-giveaway table! Check out the lower left corner of the photo/table for a YA novel from The Muse Squad series. It is now in the hands of a reader!

07/23/2020

Six excellent new poems by Amit Majmudar in the latest issue of Classical Outlook (95.2), including this powerful piece on Ovid:

The Sweet Witty Soule of Ovid

Ovid, your gods are rapists.
A panic rash of treebark
Plaques up Daphne’s calves,
And it is poetry to you.
A hand across a mouth
Gets pricked on a new beak.
An earlobe dripping blood
Explains the red in redbreast.
Ovid, most of these girls
Were underage. But then it’s all
Material ...

06/09/2020

This man has been inspired by Apollo and the Muses.

This introduces a mnemonic to remember the vowels for the different conjugations for the present active subjunctive, reviews the forms, and then celebrates/h...

06/01/2019

RIP Roky Erickson.

Original LP Mono Mix version (1966). By the psychedelic rock band "13th Floor Elevators". Edit: As noted by several users, this is the original mono mix. Thi...

04/22/2019

Greek tragedy survives today as words on a page, but ancient performances were distinguished as much for music and dance as for speeches and dialogue. Tragic poets were composers as well as playwrights. The aulos, a two-piped, reeded wind instrument, accompanied all choral odes, and its effect—at ...

10/17/2018

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07/10/2017

"By magically transforming into tall, woody plant, I was able to fully express my quiet truth without wrecking the guy’s self-esteem, put a stop to the unwanted attention (assuming he’s not one of those guys that’s into s*x stuff with trees, but that’s only something I heard about on the internet), and I’ve been growing nicely ever since."

We’ve all been there: You meet a guy for a drink but things don’t really click so when he asks you to come watch a tone-deaf standup comedy special.

06/17/2017

aulos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfov0XABObM&t=10s

An aulos found in 1969 in a grave dated to around c. 480 BCE, a mile south of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia. Measured by Stelios Psaroudakis, reproduc...

12/20/2016

Tintoretto, the Contest Between Apollo and Marsyas

09/07/2016

"Farworking, radiant child, what do you know about us?"
"Old Joke" by Alan Shapiro.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42937

Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo,

02/16/2016

http://the-toast.net/2016/02/16/paintings-of-the-nine-muses-dejectedly-performing-their-duties/

doesn't Terpsichore mean "delight in dancing" you don't seem very delighted it means a lot of things