House of the Tragic Poet House of the Tragic Poet The House of the Tragic Poet (also called "The Homeric House" or "The Iliadic House") is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house, or villa, is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology. Discovered in November 1824 by the archaeologist Antonio Bonucci, the House of the Tragic Poet has interested scholars and writers for generations. Although the size of the house itself is in no way remarkable, its interior decorations are not only numerous but of the highest quality among other frescoes
The Dream, and Other Poems composed by Lenox-Conyngham, which do not have English translations, and two more Italian sonnets which have been written by other poets, Vincenzo da Filicaja (1642-1707) and De Coureil (1760-1822) translated by Lenox-Conyngham. She is a poet of many languages, as not only does she engage with Italian, she has translated 5 poems of F. Von Matthisson (1761-1831) from German into English. There are 16 poems about death; 3 about war; 2 about humanity and exile; 1 on friendship; 1 on travel, and; 1 on femininity. 21 of these poems include allusions to Christianity. The first poem, which also takes the