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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Anchises

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

A Trojan prince beloved by Aphrodite, father of Aeneas, and a key figure in Virgil’s Aeneid as a symbol of mortal-divine union.

Detailed Definition
Anchises was a mortal prince of Troy seduced by Aphrodite, resulting in the birth of Aeneas. Struck lame by Zeus for boasting of the affair, he was later carried from Troy by his son during its fall. In poetry, especially in Virgil’s Aeneid, Anchises represents paternal wisdom, divine lineage, and the burden of destiny passed from one generation to the next.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anchises, father of Aeneas, is carried from burning Troy in Virgil’s Aeneid, symbolizing filial piety; In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Anchises is seduced by the goddess and warned not to boast of their union; Ovid references Anchises’s mortal pride in Fasti as a cautionary tale; Renaissance poets depict Anchises as a symbol of ancestral wisdom; In Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, Anchises embodies Roman virtue and destiny; Modern adaptations use Anchises to explore themes of legacy and divine-human relationships.
Additional Notes
Anchises, a Trojan prince and mortal lover of Aphrodite, is best known as the father of Aeneas; his role in Virgil’s Aeneid underscores themes of piety, lineage, and divine-mortal unions—poets may reference him to explore paternal legacy, humility before the gods, or the burden of destiny; his lameness (from Zeus’s thunderbolt) adds a layer of human frailty.
Also Known As
Father of Aeneas Mortal Beloved of Aphrodite Anchises of Dardania
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