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Callida Iunctura

Christopher Childers

Weekly translations of ancient poets and others. Occasional literary maunderings and willful acts of rhyme.

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Crossing the Water with the Argonauts

This was a review essay published in the now-defunct Parnassus in 2015. As I can no longer find it online, I am posting it here to extend its shelf-life a little. It is a bit less persuasive about the Argonautica than it should be, but I di...

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Men of Assisi

Ancient Porta Marzia, Perugia

“North of Rome, the land changes. It becomes richer and more fertile, but also bolder and stranger. The rocky Apennine backbone of Italy sends out curving ribs and throws up harsh vertebrae of stone. There a...

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Labor Omnia Vincit

Emblem of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters

Little unites both teams in our lukewarm civil war like labor—though not the same idea of labor. When Oklahoma chose Labor omnia vincit as its state motto, no doubt the intent was pro-capitali...

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A Salvific Kettledrum

“MORE poetry? Listen, Catullus, we need to talk…”

Catullus may have compared himself to a flower cut down at the edge of a field, but his genius was more like a hothouse which incubated what would become the most influential strains of cla...

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Birthdays, Roman and Otherwise

Swooning for Sulpicia.

Today is the anniversary of Augustus’ death. As the poem says,

Great Caesar’s bust is on the shelf,
And I don’t feel so young myself.

Anyway, has a birthday coming up which it was a great pleasure pre-celebrati...

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    Author/translator of The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse. Recent transplant to LA.

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