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Culture and Belief 22

Concepts of the hero in Classical Greek Civilization
Sourcebook
General Editor: Gregory Nagy
Managing Editor: Soo-Young Kim

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Homer
YOU who see through us as if
We never walked the world,
Speculating as if we were
Simply imitating your words,
How absolute you are.

So now we wander here and there

Lives pausing in their moments,
The sights that you offered we
Repeat when the sun is strong
For action to be obvious.

Your genius enveloped us

We did not know that we
Were formed by your kind
Vision supercharging
The gravity of life on earth.

As we go out on the fields

Which you circumscribed,
Planes of death and ambition
Axles racing in their wheels
Blood upon the powdery sand:

Then when you withdrew speech

Which made all this seem true,
We were obliged to fabricate
Pretend days was just the same
That light had not been veiled.

There are ingots of experience

And shadows in the night,
Fires flash and gleam as
As all this runs away in time,
To your great voice we turn.

You gave us destiny and hearts

Desperate to hear your sound

Outlined loves nubile body,

You made us search ourselves
To think we wore our souls inside
To be changed just like a tunic.

Compose desire and grief,

There is astonishment conceived
Since you left us to ourselves
Staring at your figures.
-Kevin McGrath

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Produced in consultation with the Perseus Project and with the editorial assistance of Miriam Carlisle, Irene Convey, Casey Du, Mary Ebbott,
David Elmer, Jeff Emanuel, Madeleine Goh, Marianne Hopman, Thomas E. Jenkins, Brian Jobe, Soo-Young Kim, Kelly McCray, Kevin
McGrath, Imhotep Newsome, Irene Peirano, Joycelyn Peyton, Timothy Power, Lynn Sawlivich, Sarah-Neel Smith, and Keith Stone.

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