Mythistorema (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Giorgos Stylianou Seferiades
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Justice, History, Memory, Traveling or travelers, Mythology or myths, Reality, Death or dying, Gods or goddesses, Imagination, Life, philosophy of, Greece or Greek people, Happiness, Caves
The Poem
Mythistorema is a sequence of twenty-four lyric and dramatic poems in free verse. The title is a colloquial word for “novel” that combines the ideas of myth and history. The author’s note states: “MYTHISTOREMA—it is its two components that made me choose the title of this work: MYTHOS, because I have used, clearly enough, a certain mythology; ISTORIA [both “history” and “story”], because I have tried to express, with some coherence, circumstances that are as independent from myself as the characters in a novel.”
The poem’s narrator,...
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