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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 C

Cebriones

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

Illegitimate son of Priam who served as Hector's loyal charioteer during the Trojan War. He was killed by Patroclus, and his death deeply affected his half-brother Hector.

Detailed Definition
Cebriones served Hector and died in the Iliad. In poetry, he exemplifies the many noble yet doomed warriors of epic. His death underscores the impartial devastation of war.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cebriones, Hector’s charioteer slain by Patroclus, represents loyal service; A poet retelling the Iliad may highlight Cebriones to humanise epic war; His death beneath a stone can symbolise sudden reversal of fortune; He embodies the often-overlooked companions of heroes.
Additional Notes
Cebriones served as Hector's charioteer and illegitimate half-brother, killed by Patroclus in the Iliad during the fierce fighting over Sarpedon's corpse. His death scene exemplifies Homeric battle narrative's vividness and pathos, as Homer describes him falling like a diver from the chariot. Patroclus mocks his fall, and a desperate struggle erupts over the body. Cebriones represents the many secondary casualties of war whose deaths are overshadowed by greater heroes but nonetheless carry emotional weight and narrative significance. For students analyzing Homeric technique, Cebriones' death demonstrates how the poet creates depth and realism by attending to lesser figures whose fates illustrate war's indiscriminate destruction. His relationship to Hector as bastard brother adds familial dimension to Trojan losses. The fierce struggle over his corpse foreshadows the later, greater fight over Patroclus' body. References to Cebriones in later literature invoke the faithful companion whose death presages greater tragedy.
Also Known As
Cebrion
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