Packet 7: Bonus 20
In this poem, the speaker advises the title Roman standing at a window to not “say it was a dream, your ears deceived you” and to listen for the “exquisite music of that strange procession.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this 1911 poem based on a passage in Plutarch, which instructs the title man to “say goodbye to her, to the Alexandria you are losing.”
ANSWER: “The God Abandons Antony” [or “The God Forsakes Antony” or “Apoleipein o theos Antonion”]
[10e] “The God Abandons Antony” is one of many poems alluding to the Classical world by this modern Greek poet who also wrote “Ithaca” and “Waiting for the Barbarians.”
ANSWER: Constantine P. Cavafy [or C. P. Cavafy or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis]
[10h] Cavafy’s speaker assumes an ironic advisory tone in this other poem set in the Roman world. The speaker of this poem warns, “be sure to keep clear of those who salute and bow to you,” and suggests seeing “what vital news Artemidoros has written down for you.”
ANSWER: “The Ides of March” [or “Oi Idées tou Martíou”]
<Editors, European Literature> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)
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