Apollo on Antigonu’s Medal
Of all his statues, indeed great works of art, the small
medal of Antigonus touched us the most — on it,
Apollo, sitting inside a trireme, seems to be concentrated,
at the same time absentminded and not as complacent —
perhaps because the tight space reveals his secret beauty
better and perhaps for this reason, naked, without his lyre,
in a familiar pose, it allows certain deeper encounter, even
certain flattery, perhaps, we too, naked like him, hide in
the foggy, confined circle of the medal — the beautiful
and distancing trireme helped to this a lot.
Manolis Aligizakis 