• Lia Sturua

Remembering the Myth (Lia Sturua, Selected, Tbilisi, 2013)

• Poetry

“[…]

When Zeus coupled with an earthly woman,

He would put to oblivion heavens and moral, like a poet,

He would slice his forehead, Parthenon’s marble, in two

And bear children from his mind,

[…]

But the children considered Olympus a prison,

Finally they broke it, leaving the Heavens’ eye open,

Where a new God, started glittering as a tear-drop…” (pg. 394)

• Zeus ( )
• Parthenon ( )
• Olympus ( )