Persephone's Nightmare

Authors

  • Clayton Miles Lehmann University of South Dakota

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2019.10.2.3137

Keywords:

Nikos Gatsos, Persephone, Eleusis, environmental degradation

Abstract

Abstract  

      Translation of a poem by Nikos Gatsos that sets modern Greek environmental issues against Greek mythology: Eleusis is the setting for the most important ancient shrine of Demeter and Persephone, goddesses associated with Earth’s fertility, and a modern industrial wasteland.

 

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Author Biography

Clayton Miles Lehmann, University of South Dakota

Clayton Miles Lehmann is a professor of History at the University of South Dakota. His research focuses on ancient history, archaeology, and epigraphy; and on classical reception.

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Published

2019-10-04

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2019): Ecological In(ter)ventions in the Francophone World

Section

Creative Writing and Arts

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