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The Stone Serpent - Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved (Paperback)
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The Stone Serpent - Barates of Palmyra's Elegy for Regina his Beloved (Paperback)
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Loot Price R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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Syrian poet Nouri al-Jarrah brings to life a story that can never
again be lost in time after a single line in Aramaic on a tombstone
fired his imagination. This inspiring epic poem awakens two
extraordinary lovers, Barates, a Syrian from Palmyra, and Regina,
the Celtic slave he freed and married, from where they have lain at
rest beside Hadrian's Wall for eighteen centuries, and tells their
unique story. Barates' elegy to his beloved wife, who died young at
30, is, however, not about mythologizing history. With the poet
himself an exile in Britain for 40 years from his birthplace of
Damascus, the poem forges new connections with today, linking
al-Jarrah's personal journey with that of his ancient forebear
Barates, who resisted slavery with love. Barates' Eastern song also
questions whether the young Celtic fighters, the Tattooed Ones,
were really barbarians, as they emerged from forest mists to defend
their hills and rivers and their way of life from the Romans, and
died or lay wounded at the twisting stone serpent that was
Hadrian's Wall.
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