Stesichorus was a Sicilian Greek from the early classical age. Over another, seen through the double lens of scholarship and verse.

In lyric mode, the scholar and poet Anne Carson has created, from fragments of the Greek poet Stesichorus, a profound love story - a reverie on the mystery of one person's power Housman, is packing London's Royal National Theater and entrancing unscholarly audiences with Housman's scholarly lectures on the Roman poet PropertiusĪs well as Housman's own poems of unrequited love. Of Love,'' Tom Stoppard's play about the scholar and poet A. Lassical scholarship, rebuilding ancient meaning from papyrus fragments and linguistic likelihood, is suddenly the new image for obsessive love. Herakles’s cruelty and refusal to be emotionally vulnerable with Geryon make Geryon realize he no longer loves Geryon and, perhaps, never really knew him in the first place.Anne Carson retells the story of Hercules' 10th labor in verse.

However, Herakles becomes annoyed when Geryon cries after they have sex, criticizing Geryon’s inability to separate emotional from physical intimacy, a problem he claims Geryon had back in “the old days,” too. When the one-time lovers reunite many years later in Buenos Aires, they realize they are still attracted to each other. The breakup devastates Geryon but appears not to affect Herakles. These opposite stances on freedom and love ultimately prompt Herakles to break up with Geryon toward the end of their visit to Herakles’s home in Hades, where he lives with Herakles’s grandmother and Herakles’s mother. For example, when Herakles and Geryon secretly reunite on a trip to Buenos Aires when they’re in their twenties, Herakles betrays his new partner, Ancash, by initiating sex with Geryon. Herakles values personal freedom above shared experience and often acts at the expense of others. Their differing ideologies create friction in their relationship, since Herakles never tells Geryon what he’s thinking, nor does he have any interest in knowing what’s on Geryon’s mind. While Geryon wants intimacy and understanding, Herakles has a more casual attitude toward sex and finds the commitment and closeness Geryon desires to be oppressive.

Herakles is Geryon’s opposite: he is carefree, confident, and free-spirited. They meet when both boys are teenagers and quickly become inseparable, eventually initiating a sexual relationship. In Carson’s adaptation of the myth, Herakles is Geryon’s first love who later breaks his heart. In Greek mythology, Herakles is the hero who slays the monster Geryon.

An autobiography of red