Herodotus thought that the sun,
When blown from its course, summer's done.
That wasn't quite true,
Was maybe coo-coo,
But thinking about it is fun.
Categories:
herodotus, fun, funny, science, silly,
Form: Limerick
Writers write to master the minds
like mine to master, be thines,
5th century Greek writers Patriarch
Herodotus, Thucydides and Plutarch.
They savor the flavor, 'Land Battles', be
Persia and Greece, intro 5th century.
Persian priests', called it magosh, then,
Greeks termed the word magoi when
it changed to mageia and then magika,
hence, precedes that illusion, magical.
The battle itself was a point of focus,
but in reality, 'twas an uprising tempest,
all that matters merely meant confusion,
purpose the word, magic, sort of illusion.
At the start, a keen preceptor will take,
while the rest, smoke and mirror, mistake
goal to amuse, jam and jelly seize a fainted
a riddle connects the dots, numbers painted
a true picture of the taken as the takers smile
'MAGIC', those who knew & misknew, worthwhile.
Categories:
herodotus, character, confusion, fun, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
History
Herodotus was first to write
humanity’s ancient story.
Horrific tale of weak and might,
heritage of mankind’s glory.
Happenings mark important times,
honoring heroes in their prime.
Memories when we look behind.
The who and why become defined.
6/21/18 Pleiades 8
Categories:
herodotus, history,
Form: Verse
Herodotus climbs ladder of history
Every time he does it he falls off
But he does not break his back
And does not lose scrolls of Ulysses
As historian I too love ladder climbing
But do you know how many times,
Pericles has broken my neck?
And snatched my scrolls of history?
Categories:
herodotus, history, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
History
Herodotus gave us
humanity’s story
horrific tale of earth’s
heritage of glory
happenings that outlast
honor for the heroes
his story from the past
2/19/17
Pleiades H
Categories:
herodotus, high school, history, world,
Form: Verse
Pity to me will perturb and disturb
What you should do with it is to curb
While much envy will highly invigorate
Create curiosity which can hardly wait.
Without relaxation, love or at least fun
Sooner your life one day will be done
Become unstable and mad without knowing
Develop ADD and forget where you are going.
So do be nobly bold while breaking out
Having half the evils along with some doubt
Find a friend with to share your fear
Cowardly listlessness no longer is near.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran and Poet
Derivation of Herodotus
Categories:
herodotus, allegory, analogy, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
I had my flying words
if winged jump
Alexander had gone to take the traces of legends
my catch them
no longer
Even though I know it is impossible
I expected
I had stuck my words
between language and my dream
dropped from the eyelashes will fall as Cleopatra
show a kind of self
still looking forward
I expected
I had screaming words
we all know that the bridge wait
lost their arms in the wind-blown
just what I heard
Speaking with me
I expected
I had smelling jasmine word
I've just never been into the sea beside
my soul wrapped in the hide me
just smelling me
mine
with me
I expected
My words were walking in the shade
Tired of being followed me from the past
I can not catch
I feel
Herodotus to plateau persist
by imagining that the myth
I wanted to pull off
I expected
feride serin
Categories:
herodotus, life, word play, words,
Form: Lyric
Politically Educated
Politics from the Greek, for relating to citizens
A way to announce and make their collective decisions
The art or science of running state affairs
Including, Civil, Institution, Religious, Academic or Power shares.
Social relations involving power or authority
And methods and tactics; to apply a policy.
History from the Greek meaning, inquiry or knowledge acquired by investigation
Is the discovery collection, presentation and organisation
It can also mean a time after writing was invented.
We thank Herodotus and Thucydides for the modern study of history, so I am contented.
Geography a science that studies the land inhabitants and phenomena of the earth
Eratosthenes invented the word “Geography” for what it is worth.
It seeks to understand all complexities of human and natural life
I think he must have got bored one day, perhaps he didn’t have a wife.
Contest Entry sponsored By Dana'Lynn Smith By Mandy Tams
Categories:
herodotus, education, power, science,
Form: Narrative
Santa Monica Pier
I remember watching
the ocean roll on the shore,
wave after wave,
crashing down on the solid sand
and I idly staring back
wondering if the Atlantic was as blue.
I watched him light a candle
and move in the swaying light
from a bygone age.
The flame flickered, so fragile,
it leans and sways in the cold breeze
My burning love is the flame in the lamp
From antiquity--a pre-industrial artifact
An oil lamp of glass from Rome
Bronze from Carthage
A terra-cotta from Athens
He smiles at me
in a flicker of light and
knows all my past like a line from Virgil
A chronicle from Homer
An essay from Milton, a history of Herodotus
And me, ignorant,
knowing nothing of him
can only quote
from Ovid,
Beowulf,
Caedmon and Gilgamesh.
The flame descends,
From the nape of the lit candle,
and we are lying in darkness on a spring night.
Everything in history is forgotten
and yesterdays are not so many
as night descends,
the lit moon cast in the glow
of the lamplight of our love.
Categories:
herodotus, sociallight, history, light,
Form: Prose Poetry
And so life comes to pass
Plato, the Republic, and the riposte of revenge
Knowing history can never fully extend
The Socratic palm of philosophy’s heavy hand
Poisoned by power's thirst for peaceful Persian seas
Which stir lush groves of crimson and Thebian thieves
As sparkling city-states crumble and empires feast
Rome culling the culture crush of golden Greece
Where Herodotus fathered and Plutarch bleeds
Tales of battles, generals, and Hellenic greed
That perhaps Alexander was but a minion of means
Simply a soldier of death's deciduous seed
Born to pass hereditary titles to war's widowed lands
Endlessly reaping the accolades of conquering man
Somehow sown in the tomes of Aristotelian prose
Even construed as a catharsis of glory’s godless throes
So perhaps, someday, conquest will become nothing more
Than tragedy misquoting the late...great...Edgar Allan Poe
Categories:
herodotus, allegory, confusion, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse