Tag: translation

• The Oaks are our mothers (Zonas of Sardis, AP 9.312, 1st CE)

  

  A translation of an unusual epigram attributed to Zonas of Sardis advising against chopping down oaks.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  28 March 2023

  History, Reintegrating with Nature

  ancient Greece, ecology, epigram, Nature, Poetry, translation, Trees

• Homeric Hymn 30: To Earth Mother of All

  

  Text and translation of Homeric Hymn 30 to Earth Mother of All, with a commentary on our extractive relationship to the earth and our mothers, plus remarks on the language of the hymn.

  Lucca Daniel Green

  21 March 2023

  History, Reintegrating with Nature

  Ancient Greeks, Earth, Extraction, Gaia, Homer, Homeric Hymn, Motherhood, Nature, Poetry, translation