{"id":358,"date":"2010-11-20T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=358"},"modified":"2010-11-20T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T05:03:18","slug":"constantine-cavafy-neros-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/358\/poems\/constantine-cavafy-neros-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantine Cavafy &#8211; Nero&#8217;s Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nero wasn&#8217;t troubled when he heard<br \/>\nthe Delphic Oracle&#8217;s prophecy.<br \/>\n&#8220;Let him beware the age of seventy-three.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe still had time to enjoy himself.<br \/>\nHe is thirty years old. It&#8217;s quite sufficient,<br \/>\nthe deadline that the god is giving him,<br \/>\nfor him to think about dangers yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>Now to Rome he&#8217;ll be returning a little wearied,<br \/>\nbut exquisitely wearied by this trip,<br \/>\nwhich had been wholly devoted to days of delight-<br \/>\nin the theaters, in the gardens, the gymnasia&#8230;<br \/>\nEvenings of the cities of Achaea&#8230;<br \/>\nAh, the pleasure of naked bodies above all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So Nero. And in Spain, Galba<br \/>\nis secretly assembling his army and preparing it:<br \/>\nthe old man, seventy-three years old.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Translated from the Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn) Nero wasn&#8217;t troubled when he heard the Delphic Oracle&#8217;s prophecy. &#8220;Let him beware the age of seventy-three.&#8221; He still had time to enjoy himself. He is thirty years old. It&#8217;s quite sufficient, the deadline that the god is giving him, for him to think about dangers yet to <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/358\/poems\/constantine-cavafy-neros-deadline\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}