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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Acamas

Mythology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Son of Theseus and Phaedra, or alternatively a Trojan son of Antenor. As Theseus's son, he sailed to Troy with Diomedes; as Antenor's son, he fought defending Troy.

Detailed Definition
Acamas appears in Greek mythology either as a son of Theseus and Phaedra or as a Trojan son of Antenor. In the latter role, he fought in the Trojan War and later helped found settlements in Thrace. Poets reference Acamas to evoke themes of lineage, heroism, and the aftermath of war, especially in narratives concerning the returns of Greek heroes or the founding of new cities.
Example
Example in poetry:
Acamas, son of Theseus, sailed with the Argonauts and was invoked by Virgil in the Aeneid as a symbol of Athenian valor; In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Acamas is mentioned among the heroes who fought at Troy, illustrating his martial legacy; Poets might use “Acamas” to evoke themes of noble lineage and heroic duty in epic verse; Acamas appears in Quintus Smyrnaeus’s Posthomerica as a steadfast warrior, useful for poets exploring post-Trojan War narratives; A reference to Acamas in a poem could symbolize the bridge between Athenian myth and pan-Hellenic heroism.
Additional Notes
Acamas appears in multiple genealogies: as a son of Theseus (with Phaedra), he joins the Trojan War and later aids in the recovery of Helen; as a son of Antenor (a Trojan elder), he represents a more ambiguous, possibly pro-Greek Trojan figure. Poets may invoke Acamas to explore themes of divided loyalty or heroic lineage. His name surfaces in Virgil’s Aeneid and Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca, useful for tracing post-Homeric mythographic traditions.
Also Known As
Akamas
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