The Legislation of Lycurgus and Solon by Friedrich Schiller
To truly appreciate the nature of the Lycurgian plan, we must understand Sparta’s political situation at the time, and the conditions...
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The Editors
- Mar 7
- 1 min
We've Moved to Substack!
We're excited to announce that the integration of New Lyre Magazine and The Chained Muse is now complete. Readers can access both The...
By Benjamin Lukey
- Feb 22
- 2 min
How I Got This Way & Visitation
How I Got This Way Uneasy in the company of friends, I felt no better sitting by myself; Improving means had not improved the ends. So I...
By Mark Arvid White
- Jan 18
- 1 min
The Choices of Daedalus
Near dawn he turns and clings to me, My fingers poised on golden curls, A thousand steps we have ascended To this place above the sea....
The Editors
- Jan 16
- 2 min
The Angel with the Broken Wing by Dana Gioia
The Chained Muse and Age of Muses is proud to present the first of many films in its poetry through education series. For our first film,...
By Martin McCarthy
- Jun 9, 2022
- 2 min
Forever & Other Poems
Forever We are way out here on the edge of town, and a breathless, gushing ocean clings to your tidewash of shards. We are way out here...
By Michael R. Burch
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
Resurrecting Passion
Last night, while dawn was far away and rain streaked gray, tumescent skies, as thunder boomed and lightning railed, I conjured words,...
By Bob Zisk
- May 17
- 2 min
Elegy and Sequence for T.D.
Dark Current: for Terry, Who Died on May 9, 2023 Nuestras vidas son los ríos que van a dar en la mar que es la muerte... I Today the...
By David Gosselin
- May 12
- 13 min
The Intellectuals and the Masses Revisited
With the advent of the modern industrial world, the twentieth century saw the emergence of a new generation of elite literati whose...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 20
- 10 min
Why We Need the Tragic: Schiller, Cassandra and the Rebirth of Tragedy
“Trust me, the fountain of youth, it is no fable. It is running Truly and always. Ye ask, where? In poetical art.” —Friedrich Schiller,...
Translation
- Apr 12
- 2 min
Hector's Farewell by Friedrich Schiller
Andromache Hector, are you now forever leaving Me to venture where Achilles, weeping, Piles dire hecatombs for Patroclus? Who will teach...
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