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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

Coroebus

Historical Figure
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 warrior and suitor of Cassandra, killed during the fall of Troy

Detailed Definition
Coroebus appears in Virgil’s Aeneid as a brave but doomed defender of Troy who dons captured Greek armor in a desperate attempt to resist the city’s sack. His tragic death underscores the pathos of Troy’s collapse and the futility of individual valor against fate. In poetry, Coroebus symbolizes loyalty, sacrificial courage, and the human cost of war, often invoked to evoke classical tragedy and heroic despair within the broader mythological framework of the Trojan War.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Virgil’s Aeneid, Book II, Coroebus declares, “Let me die in arms, if Heaven so wills it,” embodying tragic resolve amid Troy’s fall.; Coroebus dons the armor of the Greek warrior Thersilochus to fight deceptively—a desperate act that highlights the chaos and moral ambiguity of war in epic poetry.; His love for Cassandra motivates his doomed defense of Troy, illustrating how personal devotion intertwines with public catastrophe in classical narratives.; Coroebus’ death at the hands of Neoptolemus serves as a poignant moment that underscores the indiscriminate brutality of the city’s sack, a recurring motif in poetic treatments of the Trojan War.; In later poetic allusions, Coroebus symbolizes the honorable yet futile resistance of the vanquished, often contrasted with Aeneas’ divinely ordained survival.; Renaissance poets sometimes invoked Coroebus to evoke pathos or critique blind heroism, using his fate as a foil to more providential figures like Aeneas.
Additional Notes
Coroebus appears primarily in Book II of Virgil’s Aeneid, where he serves as a foil to Aeneas—brave but lacking divine favor, his fate emphasizing the theme of fatum (destiny) central to the epic. His decision to wear captured Greek armor in a doomed attempt to deceive the enemy illustrates the tragic confusion and moral inversion characteristic of Troy’s final hours. Though absent from Homer’s works, Coroebus features in later classical sources like Dictys Cretensis and Quintus Smyrnaeus, making him a useful example of how post-Homeric traditions expanded minor figures into poignant symbols of resistance and loss. In poetry, Coroebus often represents the archetype of the “noble but futile defender,” a motif useful for discussing heroic codes, the role of fate versus free will, and the emotional texture of epic tragedy. Students analyzing allusions to Coroebus should consider how poets use him to evoke pathos, critique blind valor, or contrast mortal agency with divine orchestration. Related concepts include pietas (duty), furor (rage or madness), and the broader Trojan War mythos involving figures like Hector, Polyxena, and Cassandra.
Also Known As
Coroebus of Elis
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