Philhellene (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Konstantionos Petrou Kabaphes
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Self, Art or artists, Beauty, Kings, queens, or royalty, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Coins, Holy Roman Empire
The Poem
“Philhellene,” which means “a lover of things Greek,” is a short dramatic monologue spoken by a king of one of the puppet monarchies on the edge of the Roman empire in western Asia. “Beyond the Zagros” (mountains that straddle the border between Iraq and Iran), this imaginary kingdom is far from the center of what the king regards as civilization. The time is not specified, although one can assume that it is sometime in or after the first century c.e. The king is addressing either his coin designer or one of his courtiers, a man named Sithaspes, about the...
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