The Fourth Dimension

by Ritsos, Yannis

• ISBN13: 9780691024653
• ISBN10: 0691024650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-17
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

In the dramatic monologues that make upThe Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded theThe Fourth Dimensionas his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight.

Author Biography

Peter Green is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin Beverly Bardsley, a freelance translator, lives in Austin, Texas

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Window	p. 3
Winter Clarity	p. 15
Chronicle	p. 25
Moonlight Sonata	p. 37
Agamemnon	p. 47
Orestes	p. 63
The Dead House	p. 83
The Return of Iphigenia	p. 103
Under the Shadow of the Mountain	p. 123
Chrysothemis	p. 147
Persephone	p. 175
Ismene	p. 191
Ajax	p. 215
Philoctetes	p. 229
Helen	p. 251
Phaedra	p. 273
When the Stranger Comes	p. 295
Notes to the Poems	p. 313
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