• Merab Kostava

Schliemann! (Merab Kostava, Poetry, Tbilisi, 1990)

• Poetry

“The son of different age and nation

Why did you waste your life on Hellas?

You, Schliemann, impassioned with Greeks

What memory excited you so? […]

You cast the light onto the darkness

And furthered the Achaeans’ glory […]

You believed and Troy rose from the dead

Troy, the glory of Agamemnon […]

Whereto did the Eos’ light guide you,    

Lit by Iphigenia’s sacrifice

And the vengeance of Orestes?

Remember, being touched by eagle’s wings

The sign of mighty Zeus,

Strong arms and dexterity

Of Diomedes and Odyssey

And the smile of gorgeous Helen […]

Here, the wooden horse, resembling whale.

Vengeful for Achilles

How could they appreciate sorcerer Cassandra,

If they had no interpreter

Troy fell and Aphrodite

Blessed the brave Aeneas on his way

And you, managing the royal table

Will never bless again Idomeneus […]

Here, you found Mycenae’s gates […]

And the night became pitch dark

Mythos’ knot turned into noose

Death approaches, with hideous tie

Of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus”. (pg. 52-53)

• Hellas ( )
• Greeks ( )
• Achaeans ( )
• Agamemnon ( )
• Eos ( )
• Iphigenia ( )
• Orestes ( )
• Zeus ( )
• Diomedes ( )
• Odysseus ( )
• Helen ( )
• wooden horse ( Trojan horse )
• Achilles ( )
• Troy ( )
• Aphrodite ( )
• Aeneas ( )
• Idomeneus ( )
• Mycenae ( )
• Clytemnestra ( )
• Aegisthus ( )