Ancient Love Themes in Contemporary Music
(Ancient Text by Lucretius, translated by Martin Ferguson Smith) and Love Will Tear Us Apart (Contemporary Song by Joy Division) ParallelTextLyricsListen Joy Division’s song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is bitter love song about how love will ruin a relationship. Read More …
(Ancient Text by Theocritus, translated by Peter Bing and Rip Cohen) and You Belong with Me (Contemporary Song by Taylor Swift) ParallelTextLyricsListen In both Theocritus’ idyll 11 and Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me” they present a narrator talking to Read More …
(Ancient Text by Euripides, translated by AJ Podlecki) and Before he Cheats (Contemporary Song by Carrie Underwood) ParallelTextLyricsListen In Euripides’ Medea, towards the end Medea find out that Jason has cheated on her and started a new life with a Read More …
(Ancient Text by Ovid, translated by Rolfe Humphries) and HOW TO BE A HEARTBREAKER (Contemporary Song by Marina and the Diamonds) ParallelTextLyricsListen In Ovid’s Ars Amatoria he writes about the ways to find and pick up women. He talks about Read More …
(Ancient Text by unknown, translated by Charles Boer) and Pretty Woman (Contemporary Song by Roy Orbison) ParallelTextLyricsListen In the Homeric hymn to Aprhodite, similar to the song “Pretty Woman” by Roy Orbison, the artists are both discussing a woman that Read More …