...too much the same time...
lots of E.T. A. Hoffmann books for an exam on horror and fantasy literature ...
then I've read several books of Pindar - in fact all that perseus. tufts is providing to find out that they don't contain the quote I was looking for...
and now I am rereading Ovid's metamorphoses....the songs of Orpheus. love it. Can't get enough of it...
"While he sang all his heart said to the sound
of his sweet lyre, the bloodless ghosts themselves
were weeping, and the anxious Tantalus
stopped clutching at return-flow of the wave,
Ixion's twisting wheel stood wonder-bound;
and Tityus' liver for a while escaped
the vultures, and the listening Belides
forgot their sieve-like bowls and even you,
O Sisyphus! sat idly on your rock!
Then Fame declared that conquered by the song
of Orpheus, for the first and only time
the hard cheeks of the fierce Eumenides
were wet with tears: nor could the royal queen,
nor he who rules the lower world deny
the prayer of Orpheus;"....
To all who are interested in classical literature I can suggest this wonderful helpful site that is providing a lot of classical literature in original version and quite reliable english translations, and for those who want to get even closer to the subject also comments on translations, biographies and essays about the ancient poets etc. etc.:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ and here the link that brings you straight to the classical section:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/p...eco-Roman.html