Melos Erotiko
Songs for Eros
Ancient Lyric Poetry in contemporary rendition and music
“Melos Erotiko” presents songs for Eros, with lyrics derived from poems written 20-28 centuries ago by:
Alkman, Anakreon, Archilochus, Ibycus, Sappho, Plato & Rufinus. Also choral odes by Sophocles and Euripides
This is a work by Konstantinos Martinides and Michalis Michaleris created for artistic than academic purposes. There are already several translations of ancient lyrical poetry, (see “Links”). “Melos Erotiko” is inspired by the power, tenderness and boldness of these poems. With respect to the ancient text, it attempts to render them lyrically (in contemporary Greek) and set them to music, hoping to convey in an accessible way, some of their grace and immediacy to the present day.
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“In the beginning of everything, Chaos came to be, and then again Earth broad-bosomed, the everlasting foundation of the world, and Eros the fairest of the Immortals, who paralyzes the limbs, tames the heart within the chest of all gods and humans and bends the righteous judgment… “HESIOD: Theogony (v. II6 et seq.), The cosmogonic bible of the Ancient Greeks
Melos Erotiko (Engl) 