Poetic-Verses from ATHANASE
Aristippos of Syrenia
Αί τού σώματος ήδοναί(aï tou sômatos hedonaï)
(The pleasure of the senses)
In the season of the year
when the wind sows its wild oats
and sap rises heraldically,
filling the senses with fire,
and words blossom pleasurably
and hands seem beautiful and trance-like
and the blood explodes and shudders out delight and joy -
all becomes yours, Aristippos,
all is Cyrenian!
translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
19.10.05.
Notes:
Aristippos of Cyrenia (IV century B.C.) was one of Socrates's students. Cyrene is a Greek colonial city state in northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast with mild weather and considerable material wealth (today in Oriental Libya).He is the founder of hedonisme (eudemonism).
(The pleasure of the senses)
In the season of the year
when the wind sows its wild oats
and sap rises heraldically,
filling the senses with fire,
and words blossom pleasurably
and hands seem beautiful and trance-like
and the blood explodes and shudders out delight and joy -
all becomes yours, Aristippos,
all is Cyrenian!
translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de Thracy by Norton Hodges
19.10.05.
Notes:
Aristippos of Cyrenia (IV century B.C.) was one of Socrates's students. Cyrene is a Greek colonial city state in northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast with mild weather and considerable material wealth (today in Oriental Libya).He is the founder of hedonisme (eudemonism).
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Aristippos of Syrenia
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