This blog contains the drawings and paintings of Corina Chirila
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My fluorescent painting of awen, the celtic symbol
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Mnasidica in Lydia missing Atthis and Sappho and the isle of Lesbos
Sappho had among her students a girl named Mnasidika, a Spartan name that means, 'In Remembrance of Justice.This painting is about Mnasidica in Lydia missing Atthis and Sappho and the isle of Lesbos . Mnasidica was in love with Atthis before leaving the isle of Lesbos to get married to a wealthy man in Lydia. Sappho describes her as "more shapely than tender Gyrinno,"
This is the poem that inspired me
Atthis, far from me and dear Mnasidika,
Dwells in Sardis;
Many times she was near us
So that we lived life well
Like the far–famed goddess
Whom above all things music delighted.
And now she is first among the Lydian women
As the mighty sun, the rose-fingered moon,
Beside the great stars.
And the light fades from the bitter sea
And in like manner from the rich-blossoming earth;
And the dew is shed upon the flowers,
Rose and soft meadow–sweet
And many–coloured melilote.
Many things told are remembered of sterile Atthis.
I yearn to behold thy delicate soul
To satiate my desire. . . .
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