Open AccessPersephone's Nightmare
Author(s) -
Clayton Miles Lehmann
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ecozon@
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2171-9594
DOI - 10.37536/ecozona.2019.10.2.3137
Subject(s) - nightmare , mythology , poetry , literature , art , greek mythology , ancient history , history , psychology , psychotherapist
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.