Notícia Futura de um Evento Passado, ou I Just Love This Guy

When the International Olympic Committee meet for a gala tonight at the Royal Opera House to usher in the 2012 Games, they will be treated to a recital of poetry by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson – in ancient Greek. Johnson, a classicist by education, who is famous for quoting Virgil and Homer in the original at the slightest provocation, has commissioned Armand D'Angour, a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, to write an poem in the style of Pindar, the ancient poet most famous for his odes celebrating victories in the athletic competitions of fifth-century Greece.

A Ode pode ser lida na íntegra, em versão bilingue, aqui.

Boris Johnson on The Ten Greatest Ancient Greeks

 ler aqui.