Other Michail Vekiaris
Antigone 3 - Éros aníkate

No. 3 of ‘‘4 Songs from Sophocles’ Antigone’’, for Two-part Choir (with optional percussions)

3rd prize in the 2nd International Composition Competition ‘‘Artistes en Herbe’’ - Luxembourg 2013

(Sung in ancient Greek - here only choir voices played by instruments)

Text:
CHORUS: O Eros, the conqueror in every fight,
Eros, who squanders all men’s wealth,
who sleeps at night on girls’ soft cheeks,
and roams across the ocean seas
and through the shepherd’s hut—
no immortal god escapes from you,
nor any man, who lives but for a day.
And the one whom you possess goes mad.

(English translation by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada)